Passenger refuses to let mother and child sit in her plane seat

A woman has refused to give up her assigned seat on an airplane for a mother and child to sit together.

In a recent Reddit post shared to the popular “Entitled People” subreddit, she and her husband travel often for work and have assumed that they would end up with someone stealing their plane seat at some point.

“People stealing plane seats and getting told off for it are some of my favorite stories on Reddit. With the increase of plane seat bandits, most likely due to airlines almost making it a requirement to pay for seats if you want to sit next to your plane partner, I have been half expecting to run into one,” the poster explained before adding that it did happen.

The passenger noted that after waking up at 3am to arrive at the airport on time, she “wasn’t in the mood” to deal with a mother and son sitting in the seats that she and her husband had paid for.

The mother told her that a flight attendant had seated them there because their booked seats weren’t together, but the passenger didn’t believe her.

“I smile back and say we paid for these seats so we would like to sit there. She keeps smiling her stiff smile and points to other empty seats behind us and asks if we wouldn’t mind sitting in one of them since they are already settled and comfortable, would it even matter?” the Reddit post continued.

“Well, I said, yes since the plane is still boarding so these might all be reserved and it really messes with the system if people sit in random seats. She is starting to lose her smile and says if there aren’t seats available after the plane is finished boarding they would move then.”

She refused to stand in the aisle and pleaded her case for why she should get the seats. “I would like the police to be able to identify our bodies by seat number in case the plane crashes and our families want to bury our remains,” she said.

Shortly after the mother and child got up and moved with no further interaction between them.

After posting, many people turned to the comments to open up about their own plane seat stories, explaining that there is always a reason for why people book specific seats whether that be to accommodate their height or bad knees.

“As a very tall and big man, I have had this happen more than a few times. And what gets me, is it’s always some 5’ woman with her 5’8 husband wanting to sit…