Originally Posted by DCA Blondie
I do know some of the flight attendants don't like people sitting there because the safety demo has to be done twice....once at Row 3 and then at Row 1 (because the person in 3C can't see the demo if you do it at Row 1 only.) But, the company would not block the seats for that reason. (And, kvetching about doing a safety demo twice is the ultimate in laziness!)
I had this happen to me last Fri. I was settled in my seat (3A, first A seat with overhead storage available on a 145) and FA asked if I wanted to sit in 5BC, as "there was more room there." I politely declined, then she said "I would like you to move there." I asked why I had to move. She responded, "Weight and Balance."
Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but as far as the weight and balance chart goes, there is no difference between 3A, and 5BC. I had to get my stuff together, and move. I couldn't figure out why she wanted me to move, but when she was doing the demo, it hit me. She only needed to do the demo once.
She was "un-nice" the entire flight. I usually leave my QC2 headphones on my head (but NOT turned ON) during take-off and landing to cut down on noise. Before take-off, she came by and asked if my CD player was off, I pulled it out of the seat back and showed her it was off. She said it was required that the headphones needed to be unplugged from the player.
She then proceeded to spend the entire 45 min flight in 1A. No service, not even a walkthrough until the "prepare for landing."
What? She wanted to make sure that I, a 40 year old, wasn't going to "sneak" the CD player on during take-off? The more I thought about my treatment on this flight, the more angry I became. But, hey, I was enroute to my daughter's 12th birthday, and I hadn't seen her in a couple of weeks, so I brushed it off.
Why do some FA's feel the need to be so controlling?