A mum was left shocked after being confronted by an angry stranger during a flight who told her that she should not have bought first class tickets.
The bewildered mother took to Reddit to tell others on the social platform about her ordeal after finding herself being verbally abused simply for sitting in first class on a plane with her toddler. The mum claimed that the tot was well-behaved for the duration of the flight and made very little noise.
"She's good at staying in her seat and tells us when she needs to go to the toilet, [or when she wants] food and toys. She stayed seated and quietly played throughout the flight, only getting up when she had to go to the toilet," she wrote on Reddit - but apparently this was not good enough for a fellow passenger, The Mirror reports.
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The mum claimed that she was asked several times by a flight attendant to show her boarding passes, while a man seated nearby in first class "glared" at her. Soon afterwards, the mum was listening to music with her baby asleep next to her when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"It was the guy that glared at us as he boarded and before I could even get a word out he told me that children weren't allowed in first class and that we needed to move to our 'real' seats," she said. "I realised he was probably the person that complained before take off that we were in the wrong seats and decided before I got upset I wanted the flight attendants to deal with this."
The mum called over a flight attendant while the disgruntled passenger "stood awkwardly next to me in the aisle", who explained to the man that the family were indeed in their correct seats and asked him to return to his own seat. The man did as he was told - but later called the mother a derogatory name when they were exiting the plane.
"He whispered to me that I was a 'fat ****' and that he pays too much money for first class to be surrounded by children," she wrote. The mum asked Reddit for advice, after revealing that she had received mixed responses when recounting the story to her loved ones.
"My kid was the only kid in first class and she didn't misbehave or even cry so at first I felt like I was in the right. But after talking to family, many of them told me that we should book economy next time because people pay extra to relax in first class."
But most Reddit users were firmly on the mum's side, jumping to her defence over the situation. "People have to fly, they need to get to where they need to go and no matter their reason it's just as legitimate as yours," one person wrote.
"Kids will get upset. Deal with it. If you're stupid enough to get on a plane without ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones and something to listen to, then that's on you.
"It's not the kid's fault you didn't prepare for being in a public space for a few hours. I don't have kids, and I don't want them, but kids are humans and have as much right to be on a flight - and in first class if that's what's been paid for," they added.
Another person argued: "Even if your child did cry, it wouldn't have mattered because you paid and are entitled to the seats you paid for.
"There is no age limit or policy that children can't be in first class. If they don't want to be around children/other people that badly - they should fly private."
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