Arguing with your partner on holiday is unpleasant at the best of times, but one man has been left facing a fate worse than most after realising he could lose his fiancé over a vacation spat. The pair were travelling home from a trip when trouble arose. Having tried to flout an airline's luggage rules, the man's beloved was told she must exit the plane they had boarded.
Instead of joining his partner, and sharing the punishment for her bad behaviour, the husband-to-be remained seated. But his choice did not go down well with his fiancé, even though he thought he had good reason to stay.
The passenger's difficult dilemma came to light when he took to Reddit, keen to know if he had been in the wrong. He explained the pair had both travelled with different-sized luggage, leading to the eventual problem. While the man opted to travel with a carry-on backpack, his fiancé pushed her luck.
"My fiancé didn't wanna listen to my advice and chose to bring basically a regular full-size bag that barely fits the standards of carry on, but generally speaking the airline worker doesn't wanna deal with the trouble and allows it through," he wrote. "But this time the airline worker was not having it. It was a packed flight, we were boarding last in economy and it was just a s*** show."
His post continued: "I got through just fine first with my little backpack, but I could hear the argument from the boarding tunnel thingy and it was getting heated. I was about to go back and try to smooth it out but my fiancé rushed pass and just boarded plane, I assumed not having heard it super clearly that the attended had given in and let her on. That was not the case!
"So we found our seats and settled in. I was pretty tired and I could tell she was upset so I just kinda tucked into the window and put my hat down and tried to take a nap. But soon after the airline worker and a cop shows up and they are not f****** around, and want her off the plane.
"She tries to plead and cry, etc. but they are not having it. And maybe in a moment of panic or just plain self preservation...the cop asks if we're together, and I blurt out, 'NO!' shaking my head emphatically. I got kill dagger eyes from her as she shot up and grabbed her bag and followed the cop out. She was also swearing and screaming the whole way out."
The story had somewhat of a happy ending, in that the man's fiancé was able to catch the next flight home. Meanwhile, he managed to make it home in time for an important work project, and he then went to pick her up from the airport. But when he met his fiancé she was upset by his choice, so much so that the man said she may not remain his fiancé for much longer.
"She obviously thought I was the a*****, and to be honest almost everyone I know thinks I'm an a***** except my boss and co workers, who for context were very much relying on me to be back on time, which I gave my word I would, for a really important project that was time sensitive," the man explained.
He then asked Reddit users for their thoughts on his act of "self preservation," and people were quick to support his decision in light of the circumstances. "When people behave so badly that the police get involved, my loyalty to them disappears," read one reply. Someone else said: "I learned many years ago you can tell a person’s true character when you travel with them." And another thought: "She acted terribly. They probably would have checked her bag and let her on if she hadn’t made a run for it."
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