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Old May 9, 2008 | 10:47 am
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Originally Posted by noiseboy
Thanks CABNcrew.

My interpretation of this thread, is that, "It's my right, so to hell with any one else, so it inconveniences them, tough luck"

My personal solution to kids running around, is a well placed foot in the aisle!

On a recent flight on VA we were put in seats that didn't recline, not good, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

The passenger in front put his seat into full recline and ignored my polite requests to reduce the amount of recline, also ignored the FA's requests.

He was a South African and tried the old "I don't understand", unfortunately for him 2 of us can speak Africaans, so we had a conversation about teaching him some manners when we landed. He immediately called the FA and said we had been threatening him, to which she replied that she had been standing next to us and had heard no such thing (she could not understand the language at all, so was not lying)., but if he felt like that, then there was a spare seat at the back, he took up her offer.

Why are a few people so selfish, a little bit of give and take hurts no-one

Rant over
Let's see if I've got this right:

You wind up in non-reclining seats (which, of course, can always be avoided through the simple expedient of checking ahead of time). You decide that the person in front of you shouldn't recline (or recline as much as he wants to), despite the fact that, evidently, he took the trouble to ensure that he had a reclining seat. You threaten him with violence when he doesn't comply, and then lie to the FA that you did.

And he's supposed to be the selfish one.

The entitlement mindset of some people is just unbelievable.
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