Several months ago, I was on my usual red-eye flight from HNL to SFO on a domestic 767-300. On boarding I noticed a group of about 8 Chinese men and women who seemed to be traveling as a small tour group.

When I arrived in my first class aisle seat, the man in the window seat asked me to change seats with his friend who had a window seat on the other side of the plane. I just don't like window seats especially after a past bad incident being "trapped" in a window seat next to a man who found it extremely inconvenient to let me out to go to the restroom twice in 5 hours.

I politely declined and he started ranting loudly in chinese to a lady behind us about how uncooperative I was being. She was pressing him to keep asking me to move. Of course, they didn't realize that no matter how non-Chinese I look, I do understand the language. I figured I'd let them go at it and then give them some choice words at the end of the flight. Of course, the man kept asking me to switch seats and I kept declining. Grrr...

Finally, a man stops beside my seat. He looks confused as he proceeds to tell me that he is in the window seat next to me. I turn to the annoying man next to me and he pulls out his boarding pass. It turns out that he was in the WRONG SEAT! He was actually in the seat across the aisle from me. He doesn't even apologize and just leaves the seat.

Oh but it gets better...he takes his carry-on bag and tries to stuff it over his new seat. I comment to him that he should use one of the side bins since the middle bins are smaller. He ignores me and continues to smash his bag into his overhead bin and finally succeeds in getting it in. He turns to give me a smug look. I just think to myself that what goes around, comes around. It certainly comes faster than I realized when on landing, he's wedged his bag so well into the bin that he can't get it out! No matter what he tries, it is stuck and not coming out. The last I saw of him, he was standing on the seats pulling on his bag and all the other passengers were streaming past him giving him strange looks. I had to use all my will power not to say, "Told you so" in chinese as I left.

TF