A young woman traveling alone on a long international flight is faced with a dilemma when she finds another passenger sitting in the window seat she booked. As she tries to assert her right to the seat, she is met with resistance and the situation escalates, leaving her questioning whether she did the right thing.
Source: Reddit
I (22F) am traveling internationally today. It’s an 8- to 9-hour flight, and I’m traveling alone. Leaving my family this time has been hard, and I’ve been crying on and off the entire day. I had a window seat booked for my flight, and I was looking forward to it.
When I got there, a child was sitting in my seat and her dad in the middle seat. I looked at the dad and pointed at the window seat, saying that I thought it was my seat, expecting him to move. He looked at me and said she’s a child and pointed at the aisle seat, suggesting I take it. Perplexed, I did and had mentioned this to my family.
My dad called me and told me to get my seat because he paid for it and it wasn’t a free seat. I then told the girl’s father this, and he asked her to move. She started crying, and I felt terrible, but my dad told me to hold my ground.
The girl moved and is sitting in the middle, I’m in my seat, and I’m also sitting back so she can see out the window. Her dad has made one or two snide remarks about me wanting my seat, so I just wanted to know, Am I a jerk for insisting on sitting in my seat?
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