OMG you just made my day. Thank you! ^^^ :D

Maybe she doesn't normally travel on SQ. I travel in J a lot but I wouldn't have a clue how to turn the SQ J seat into a bed and vice versa because I haven't flown on SQ for many years.

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with all due respect to your comments(which i'm not sure if your posting as a moderator or personal), i have been told by parents and aunts that we must know our place in placing such requests.

I'm not sure if i'm comfortable placing someone else in an awkward position by even asking, for the window shade to be pulled when im not in the window seats, in the first place. Its the same as asking someone else not to recline.

I'm sure you can argue that everyone has every right to ask and try to push the request but......

I can't see anything that suggests she was pretending to be a frequent flyer - that was simply an assumption you had made. Being a frequent flyer is not something that many normal people aspire to, and not being one is no stigma.

Good question. That really depends if the seat recline far enough to the second seat. Usually if it does, then you get to control the 2nd window only when you recline.


Of course you do, but generally if I don't sit by the window, I wouldn't even request the window to be shut or open. I truly believe the person who sit by the window can do whatever they like, or they wouldn't choose to sit by the window in the first place.

Many years ago flying SFO-CVG with 2B seat assignment. Started to board and the FA advised me to go back to the podium. GA says, "You're suppose to be on board 10 minutes before departure." I ask, what time is showing on your screen? GA replies with the time which is 10 minutes plus prior to departrure. End of discussion and GA advises FA to let me board.

A few minutes later a well-known TV personality boarded and was seated in 1A but was very unhappy and made sure everyone around him knew it. I was tempted to offer to trade seats with him but his rudeness to others caused me to hesitate and I decided that he was acting like a petulant child and could darn well stay where he was. He spent the entire flight doing everything he could to show how unhappy he was.

Since that day I have rarely watched the Sunday evening broadcast on which he still appears.

I was just answering the question.

I have been on many flights that there was one person who kept the window open (always across form me, btw :D ) and the glare/light made my sleeping (or attempt thereto) almost impossible. I NO instance did I ever ask said person(s) to lower the shade. They have the window, they control it.

I was in paid F on ORD-HKG in 1A. The pax in 1K (right across from me) had his window up the entire 14+ hours. When he would nod off, the FA's would come over and shut it. He immediately woke up as they did this and put the shade back up. I saw this happen at least three times.

I for one don't like eye shades, so I don't wear them. That's MY problem.

But I do have the right to ask (if I wanted to). ;)

Did ya ever notice how annoying some celebrities can be...?

If you are so considerate, next time if you sit in Y, I will see if the person behind ask you not to recline, would you be considerate and not to, even on a 15 hours flight.

Saying you will do it is different than you actually do it.

How 'bout this: "The light from your window makes it difficult to view the screen. Would you mind pulling the shade halfway down to help make viewing easier?"

It doesn't have to be all or nothing! Compromise, people!

:confused: , really :confused:

I am not a Moderator of this forum; thus, I am not responding as a Mod, just as a regular member of FT.

When you do see me replying as a Mod in the forums which I moderate, it will be designated as such.

I have been guilty of immature behavior myself, but only in response to someone acting beyond the pale.

A few months back I was in 2B on a USAirways 319..I was last on after having a tight connection jogging through the terminal. I get on, and 2A, a trophy wife looking woman was in 2B. She poached it..

Now, if she had asked, I would have switched with her but she had poached the seat, and my rule is simple...if you poach without asking, you get out of my seat. Period. She had the gall to say to me "You snooze, you lose" so I got the FA who took my side on the issue (I prefer aisle to window, and I bought that seat, full fare) and the woman made a big deal out of it, .....ing about me being an anal retentive a**hole.

Needless to say, for the rest of the flight she made a point to get up every 20 minutes and force me to let her out...everyone in F was rolling thier eyes although I think they found it amusing. The FA gave me sympathetic looks..and then things got nasty when it was drink time again and the woman demanded "a hot arnold palmer"..when the FA told her they did not make the Arnold Palmer anymore and only have coffee or tea hot, the woman cut her off and said "You guys have made it for me lots of times..just make one already". Wow..that was abuse. The FA actually did go and hot up some water and make her the drink, and later the woman demanded ANOTHER one, and then rang her call button to demand ice water. After all those drinks her trips to the lav got even more frequent.

That was about it for me..when she asked for the 6th time for me to get up I did..and while she was gone, I fished 3 ice cubes out of her ice water and 2 out of my vodka tonic and put them in her (Yves St Laurent) purse which was on her seat!! Never got to see her notice it, but I am sure she noticed the dampness at some point after the flight.

It was amazingly satisfying, and her subsequent trips to the lav and bin didn't bother me at all after that.

When I was growing up, we had respect for celebrities.....

Admittedly, for the longest time, I didn't know how to turn my Kindle off. I just assumed you could only have it in reading mode or in sleep mode. I am pretty technologically illiterate though.