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One woman recently shared her experience with a rude airline passenger on RedditThe fellow traveler believed the woman didn’t belong in first classHowever, the poster’s response left the “judgmental” woman “bright red”
Flying can be stressful enough without having to deal with other people causing issues.
In a recent Reddit post, a 45-year-old woman explained that she recently took a cross-country flight from Washington state to Washington, D.C. with her 51-year-old sister.
“The thing about me is, while I love to travel, I don’t do well on long flights… I have terrible restless leg syndrome, and in general, I just am not used to having to sit in one spot for that long,” she wrote. “So, when we travel, we tend to go first class. I do this for my comfort, and so I’m not disturbing other people with all of my wiggling around and bouncing my legs all over the place.”
The woman admits that she may not “look like a first-class kinda person,” as she is “pretty goth,” usually wears “all black,” and has “long black hair.” However, she is quite a “successful business owner” and does pretty well for herself.
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“It’s not like I’m jet-setting around the world all the time. I fly maybe once a year,” she added.
“So anyway, my sis and I are waiting at our gate the other day, kinda in the back of the crowd of people when the airline calls for first class to board,” she recalls.
As the poster stepped forward, she dropped her purse. When she stopped to pick it up, another woman stepped in front of her and said, “Um, they’re only boarding first class right now!”
“Let me tell you, I wanted to call her so many names, but I kept calm and ultimately my greatest satisfaction came from holding my phone with my boarding pass in her face and saying, ‘I’m pretty sure seat 1A is first class. Excuse me!’ Loud enough for half the concourse to hear and watching her turn bright red, it was like a chef’s kiss moment for me,” the woman wrote.
After finding her seat, she told her “protective” older sister about the interaction, and she was equally as stunned by the passenger’s “judgmental” behavior.
“So when I pointed the gal out as she shuffled past us, my sis shot her a straight up death glare while I giggled away in my seat and watched her turn bright red again and avoid eye contact!” she ended.
People in the comments applauded the woman for standing up for herself.
“I’ll never understand people making assumptions like that. Even if you bought an economy seat, it’s possible they upgraded you on checkin. Let the workers make the call and mind your own business,” one person said.
“I usually respond to people like that with: ‘Yes I know, I’m not stupid.’ It usually gets to them for being called out and forces them to become defensive,” another person wrote.
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