"After settling in, the wife leans over towards me with a sweet smile and says, 'Would you be a darling and switch seats with me? I really can't fly well in a middle seat,' " he shared.
"So I leaned towards her and asked if that was her partner, to which she said, 'Yes it's my husband.' I told her that I would never want to come between a husband and wife, but I was more than happy to help accommodate by switching with him so I would sit in the aisle and the two [of them] could figure it out amongst themselves."
The woman then replied, "Oh, my husband would never sit in the middle or at a window... so maybe you can do a woman a favor and switch?"
OP explained, "I told her that I really apologize but I won't do it."
He knew the woman wouldn't be happy not getting what she wanted, but he was surprised when "Moments later, I hear her yelling at her husband in another language (which I am fluent in) that 'The jerk won't switch seats so you got to switch with me.'"
But the story wasn't done yet. OP watched as the husband switched seats with his wife. Then, the husband "leans over with a smile and says that his wife switched with him because she has diarrhea and needs the aisle in case she must run."
OP confirmed he then got his last word, adding, "I actually did wish them a good rest of the day in their language at the end of their flight.... the look on her face was priceless."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 24, 2023 4:42 PM |
The fact that the language of the weird couple was not specified makes me think it may have been Hebrew or Arabic. Or possibly an African language. If it was French, Italian, German, or Spanish, it probably would have been identified.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 20, 2023 7:59 PM |
R1 you just must reach and try to make it a racial thing.
Spanish? Really? Lmao.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 20, 2023 8:03 PM |
Why is People magazine covering this?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 20, 2023 8:06 PM |
Could someone explain the seating arrangements. I'm missing something. If she was in the middle seat, the husband was sitting on the aisle, where is the guy telling the story sitting?
- The Village Idiot
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 20, 2023 8:08 PM |
R2 Nah doubt it. Black people would just sit in other people’s seat without asking to begin with.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 20, 2023 8:08 PM |
R3, why does it make you laugh your ass off that I think the language would have been identified if it were Spanish (or French, or Italian, or German)? My point was that I'm guessing the language wasn't identified because maybe it was Hebrew or Arabic or some African language, and to identify the awful couple as speaking any of those languages would have been perceived as politically incorrect.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 20, 2023 8:10 PM |
R7 you’re a retard. With no job. Just stop.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 20, 2023 8:11 PM |
R9, the use of the word "retard" makes you sound like a six-year-old. And a nasty and stupid one, at that.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 20, 2023 8:14 PM |
I got it. Yeah, the narrator was in the window seat. I thought people pulled this shit to sit next to the people they're traveling with. The husband probably smelled.
- R5
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 20, 2023 8:17 PM |
Remove the middle seat, give us pairs of seats with a nice wide isle. That's my dream, sticking to it.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 20, 2023 8:24 PM |
I dislike articles that just lift posts from Reddit, especially AITA, because most of those are made up.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 20, 2023 9:04 PM |
Admit it, OP: It was JIVE!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 20, 2023 9:23 PM |
Every plane I have been on in the last 10 years has been fully booked. Who are these Fraus who think the days of open seats and swapping with other people is still a thing?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 21, 2023 2:45 AM |
I had the misfortune of living in Atlanta for awhile and on trips home I regularly would get some grinning salesman type (always white and Southern) who would ask if I wanted to give up my aisle seat. I would respond by looking at them as though they were crazy.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 21, 2023 3:00 AM |
And Atlanta was so happy when you left. Of course, your story is very likely a complete lie, but whatever.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 21, 2023 3:06 AM |
I don't understand the diarrhea comment like was the husband mad that he had to move so he wanted to embarrass his wife or was he just trying not to look like an emasculated eunich.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 21, 2023 3:07 AM |
The middle seat bitch lost me at "would you be a darling?". I would have told her "I'm not a darling, I'm a thug, and I'll rip your adams apple out if you speak to me again".
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 21, 2023 3:07 AM |
Why is the headline outrage when all I got from the story was she was mildly annoyed as far as I can tell.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 21, 2023 3:08 AM |
Cuz like if she had diarrhea why would she want to window seat that doesn't even make sense.
The story is stupid I don't even get what's notable about it somebody asked him to switch seats he refused they were annoyed and then they switched seats with their husbands so what why is this even printed anywhere.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 21, 2023 3:10 AM |
This story blows but the comments really suck
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 21, 2023 3:12 AM |
That would be akins to People printing how when I was checking out at the WinCo the other day somebody forgot to put the little divider on the conveyor belt on the cashier almost rang up somebody's rice and I said hey that's not my rice and they said oh sorry and then they put it back.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 21, 2023 3:12 AM |
r24 Your story seriously made my day. Thank you for the laugh.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 21, 2023 4:27 AM |
R24 accurate description of todays “journalism”
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 21, 2023 5:02 AM |
Honors and just now there was a woman for moral decency talking about having Ebonics banned from their schools. And Rosanne was all hey that was my son's one chance at being bilingual. Lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 21, 2023 6:11 AM |
I meant to say on Roseanne just now.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 21, 2023 6:12 AM |
The window seat guy should have asked the bitch "if you can't tolerate a window seat, THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU BOOK A FLIGHT THAT ONLY HAD A WINDOW SEAT AVAILABLE?".
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 21, 2023 1:18 PM |
The only time that I can remember someone asked me to switch was pretty recently. I replied "Am I moving closer to the front, AND to a better seat? If so, sure. If not, absolutely not." She did not even acknowledge that I answered, and just asked the next person.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 21, 2023 1:20 PM |
Self-awareness' is the rarest quality.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 21, 2023 1:40 PM |
This whole should have been in "I want to be underwhelmed".
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 21, 2023 4:16 PM |
Your entitled bitch has diarrhea? Let her sit in the toilet.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 24, 2023 2:24 PM |
Uh yeah I’m sure they were speaking HEBREW. wtf?
R1 please. It was probably Spanish FFS.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 24, 2023 2:31 PM |
I'm definitely sure they were not Asia, nor Nordic or Germanic peoples. The manipulation and entitlement make me think Russian, Italian or Hungarian (ZsaZsa and her "darling").
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 24, 2023 2:56 PM |
[quote] OP confirmed he then got his last word, adding, "I actually did wish them a good rest of the day in their language at the end of their flight.... the look on her face was priceless."
"I wish you the best of luck." -- Gwyneth
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 24, 2023 4:42 PM |
