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Old Oct 28, 2015 | 12:03 am
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Originally Posted by ciao114
I did apologize and told him I was playing game and he told me it's not there to play for if seated in Y cabin! Only F class passengers who got TV from armrest can play the game!
That is not true; that passenger was making things up in order to get you to do what he wanted. It worked.

Whether you should keep using a feature of your seat after being told it's bothering someone else is a classic ethical question. Like, if you're in the window seat and you're asked to draw the windowshade, but you wanted to look outside and admire the view, should you comply? Or like, who owns the armrest? Or, should you be allowed to recline your seat before takeoff? Deep stuff.


Originally Posted by ciao114
Has anyone experience what I had gone through?
Yes, for sure. This sort of thing happens to lots of people on flights, in some form. Don't feel bad — you didn't do anything wrong, and it sounds like you genuinely cared about the other person's happiness and tried to make his trip more comfortable, which I think is admirable.

Just about everyone has a story like this from a flight. If you're ever at a party and hate the people there, ask one of these ethical questions. I guarantee that *everyone* will chime in, everyone has an opinion about air travel etiquette and loves to share it. Then you can leave, having successfully derailed whatever conversation was going on and killed the party.

Last edited by mherdeg; Oct 28, 2015 at 12:48 am
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