On a flight recently, I had packed light so I didn't have any bags underneath the seat in front of me. Trying to nap, I stretched out my legs with my toes resting on the bar underneath the seat in front of me. The lady in front of me repeatedly kicked my feet. At first I thought she might be unaware that she was kicking my feet, but eventually she turned around and asked me to move my feet.

I politely replied that the space underneath the seat in front of her was her space and that the space underneath the seat in front of me was my space. I'm sympathetic that having a bag under the seat in front of you doesn't leave much legroom, but I think it's rude to disrupt another passenger by kicking your feet back.

Have other people experienced this? How did you handle it? Who's legroom does the bar belong to?