A mum body shamed a fellow passenger after the woman refused to swap plane seats so the family could sit together. The incident left the woman feeling 'hurt' and angry' and tense words were then exchanged between the travellers.
Taking to Reddit, the passenger explained that when she arrived at her seat there was already someone sitting there. She politely asked her to move out of her window space, but the other passenger asked if she would sit in a middle seat on another row.
"The seat they offered me to trade was middle seat," she wrote. "Trapped between the dad (23D) and a random man (23F) in a narrow airplane seat? Nope. I feel suffocated already. I flatly replied, "No, I booked the window seat".
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"The mother immediately feels offended. She replied harshly, "So you don't mind we, a family, sitting separatedly?" Well, why don't YOU book the right seats in the first place. Didn't say this out loud tho, I was only replaying my words "That's my seat". I was adamant with my answer."
After the mum eventually moved, things turned even more sour.
"Her children were still sitting on the 23B and 23C seat, obviously I could not walk in to my seat," she wrote. "I asked them politely to get out of their seat so I could get in. What did the mother do? Body shamed me. "Kids, get up. Her body is HUGE, she could not get in"."
"I have body dysphormia already, comment like those hurts my feeling badly. With that comment, I couldn't stay silent. I replied, "So what? So what if I'm huge?" She did not silence easily. She kept on and on the insults towards me, even louder."
Hundreds of people replied to the post, with many suggesting the mum had ulterior motives. One person wrote: "My guess is she wanted a window seat but it cost more so she figured she could bully some stranger out of it and let them eat the extra cost."
Another said: "There were four of them, so they couldn't all sit together anyway. They could have swapped so that each parent had a kid next to them. Problem solved. She wasn't just entitled."
A third wrote: "Very entitled, what we call a "chancer" in Scotland.
"Hey, don't pay seat booking fees, we'll just tell everyone else to move"."
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