Originally Posted by
Badenoch
The couple was wrong. The big guy was right. It didn't matter what their problem was.
As a fairly large individual who played contact sports in his youth and spent an early part of his career in a field with the omnipresent potential for aggressive physical contact I would and have done exactly the same as the big guy. People who push and prod other passengers sometimes need to learn their behavior is not acceptable.
I’m a 5’2”, 113-lb individual—with a rollaboard that I can use as a blocking device—and I do the same thing as
Badenoch. (I am happy to be the policeman on the Amtrak quiet car, too.
) I will on occasion leap ahead of a window-seat passenger in the row ahead of me if they haven’t even stood up yet and the aisle is clear for me to move forward, but otherwise, wait for the passengers in the rows ahead unless the FA tells you different.