A few weeks back, going from MUC - ORD on LH 341, I think I had my first white knuckle experience...maybe?

During the boarding process, the Russian lady behind me was talking on her cell, LOUDLY and obnoxiously. Well, I thought, when the door is closed, this will be over, I am just gonna ignore it. And low and behold, she was getting agitated with her phone call, and started violently shaking my seat (cattle class). So I turned around and asked her nicely to stop pulling my seat.

"You should stop pulling your seat," that's what she said. Ziiing!

Irritated as I was, I took out my iPad and started reading when we are reaching the cruising altitude. You'd think things be quite and pieceful from now on right?

WROOONG!

I decided to skip the meal service, and went straight to sleep. So even before they started serving the meal, I reclined my seat about 3/4 way to start sleeping, and guess what she did?

She slammed on my seat, pushed it way back, and screamed at me!
"This is not business class, you can't sleep like that, that is MY space."

Luckily, a flight attendant saw that and told her off nicely, and just to irritate her further, this time I reclined fully (which, wasn't much in cattle class anyways.)

Just when I was about to really sleep, I heard puppies barking! So I thought, she might have paid for that and let the pet board. But then I felt something furry touching my arm... Being allergic to cats and dogs, I called for the FA, and thank goodness, per the rule, pets are not allowed outside the cage.

But I guess it was too late, my nose started getting runny for the rest of the flight, and those Zyrtec didn't really work either. Graduated medical school myself, I know fully what might happen if I am exposed in the allergen for a prolonged amount of time. Where's my epipen when I needed it? I politely asked the FA is there anything s/he can do.

By that time, the Russian lady had already caught attention of the crew member of her boorish behavior and letting the dog out, and that someone kept exercising his right in reclining his seat in front of him, has resentfully relegated herself back to the tail section and stood there as time "flew" by. (no pun intended)

Anyways, the male FA, apparently had enough of the debacle, just came by, and made sure the dog was in the cage and sneered at me and walked away, without even leaving me an extra roll of toilet paper for my nose.

After my short sleep, I decided to get up and about and a cute LH FA came up and we started chatting up, maybe because she was curious about the whole debacle. It started out as a nice convo, but before you know, I was irritated, again. Why you say?

"If you told me about your situation and your allergy, I'd gladly move you to first class, our business class is full this time around."
"Oh thanks! Why didn't you tell me that 6 hours earlier?" I said to myself, knowing that we are 1.5 hours away from ORD.
But all in all, she did give me some valuable advices when dealing with this in the future, so i got nothing against her.

Plus, she flies to ORD on avg. 5 times a month, and agreed to meet me up for lunch next time around.. anyways, TMI.

So there I was, after the flight, felt punk'd, I decided to write up a letter to LH and explained the whole debacle, knowing that I probably wont get anything back, I was glad at least I vented.

2 weeks later, LH wrote me back and offered me a system-wide eco-class 10% certificate for all future flights. I guess that's a happy ending.

Fair? Your thoughts are welcome.