Originally Posted by Emma65
I hope you never end up behind me. I reclined my seat on a 777 from AMS - JFK. I id check that the passenger behind me didn't have his traytable down so I wouldn't spill anything in his lap.
That's more courtesy than either of the people in my example gave. I've heard stories of laptop screens being broken by the effects of sudden unannounced reclines, let alone drink/food spills.
I also presume you didn't have body parts / clothing flailing about behind your seat and that you unreclined the seat for landing and disembarkation.
Next thing I know He start pushing my seat up.. I ignored it as much as possible but got fed up.
Understandably. If he had to leverage off of your seat to get out of his because of lack of space, that's one thing. But there's no excuse for him pusing on your seat continuously; that's about as stupid as the recliner in my example pushing backwards on the seat continuously trying to eek out an extra half inch of recline.
You end up behind me and do your revenge thing on me I will have the crew have words with you too.
Better still you need so much space get a business class ticket.
This is one of those issues where there are two opposed groups of people who will just never agree. That's OK. A lot of people ask why I don't recline my seat to gain space taken by the person in front of me, but I don't see the point in inflicting discomfort on someone else when I complain about the same discomfort. I stand by my personal rules for reclining seats. They aren't for everyone, but they work for me.
Oh, and I don't need "that much space." 32" pitch is adequate if people have some awareness of their surroundings. Continuous full recline to the point where the person behind can't deploy their tray table, get to their underseat storage, or even stand up without performing a strange shimmy maneuver for a lengthy flight including meal service and especially landing/disembarkation does not indicate an awareness of surroundings IMO.