Plane Passenger Publicly Shamed by Flight Attendant After He Threw Tantrum About Reclining, Tried to Steal Storage Space

An airline passenger was left amazed when the person sitting in front of them tried to take over their personal storage space — and threw a tantrum after they were confronted about it.

In a Reddit post shared to the r/UnitedAirlines subreddit on Thursday, Feb. 13, a frequent flyer who wrote that they were a member of United Airlines‘ Premier 1K program shared an unusual argument they had with the person sitting in front of them.

“So this is a new one for me…” the Redditor began. “…Did my pre-board, sat in my window seat, second row of exit. Put my briefcase under the seat. A few minutes later, another passenger sat in the window seat directly in front of me.”

“Did not think anything about this but felt my briefcase pushing against my feet. I am thinking, ‘WTF?’ ” the user continues. “I look under the seat and see the person in front of me trying to push their laptop bag under their seat, and into my under-seat storage.”

The Redditor learned forward to tell the passenger in front of them: “Uh, the space you are trying to put your laptop bag is my storage, the space under the seat in front of you is your storage space.”

“The person freaks out… ‘I am a uber million miles flyer and the space under my seat is my storage space, not yours so stop pushing back against my bag,’ ” the Redditor recounts, revealing they immediately thought to call over the flight attendant — but decided against it after the passenger offered them a few choice words.

“Of course, this person says ‘FU,’ and turns around and slams back into their seat,” the user writes. “I am thinking, ‘Wow, never had that happen before…’ ”

The “funniest part” of the whole situation came just a minute later, the Redditor writes, after they could see the person in front of them “slamming back into the seat in an attempt to recline.”

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“Anyone that flies even a little bit knows that the seats in an exit row, or those before the exit row do not recline,” they continue. “This person thought I was pushing against the seat, I guess, because they reach up, push the attendant call button.”

“The attendant was there in a [second] and the person said that I am somehow not allowing them to recline. I am thinking, ‘Wow, can this morning get any better?’ ” the post continues. “The attendant politely explains that this seat does not recline due to it being in an exit row.”

The Redditor writes that their fellow passenger freaked out again, telling the flight attendant: “This is [bulls—], I am an uber million miles flyer and have never had this issue on any other airline. I will never fly United ever again.”

“Interestingly, the flight attendant says to the passenger, ‘I think we need to move you as you cannot sit in the exit row since you do not understand the exit row requirements,’ ” the Reddit user writes.

“I was waiting for another blow up, but the person just realized they were not going to fly if they kept this up, so got up and moved to another seat, of course behind the exit row, and another person got a nice upgrade,” the post ends, with the Reddit user joking that the incident was “amazing.”

Tons of commenters agreed with the original poster, writing that they especially felt bad for the flight attendant who became “babysitters for adults.”

“She was no nonsense. I really appreciate this…” the original poster wrote of the flight attendant.

“Sounds like a person who has never flown once in their years of living,” another commenter added.

Another chimed in: “I don’t believe these people are ignorant, just trying to be jerks and cow others into letting them do it.”