Originally Posted by
Aussienarelle
OT: The surprising part of your post to me is that you sat in the window seat and let your 10 year old child sit next to the stranger. Once he did this to your daughter more than once why did you not swap seats with her? He may have been less inclined to indulge in that behavior and you would have shown your daughter how to deal with the situation rather than telling her to do something that seems not to have worked.
She did not want the window seat (usually, she loves them!). As I said, this man seemed like a total gentleman - I did not get any bad vibes at all from him. We had paid for direct TV on the middle screen - it was a 3 hr flight... daughter told me about halfway through about the elbow business. Strange thing is, I was expecting his wife to sit in our row (the other row had 2 men seated already) next to our daughter. In retrospect, I should have insisted on sitting in the middle seat.