Reply #74: My worst experience [View All]

[nichomachus]

was the flight where I got on and had the window seat in a three-across. When I got there, there were a man and woman with a small child for whom they apparently hadn't bought a ticket and were going to hold in their lap -- except that the kid was currently in my seat, looking out the window.

I said "Excuse me, I believe that's my seat." So, the mother turns to the little girl and says, "You have to move because this man is going to take YOUR SEAT."

You don't need to be Dr. Fucking Phil to know what effect it has on a little kid to be told that someone is taking "your" anything. The kid sat on the lap next to me and proceeded to shriek and kick and wail -- until finally an FA took pity on me and put me up in first class (God bless here wherever she is.)

The FA in first asked me if she could get me anything. I said, please send that kid back there (still wailing BTW) a double martini. She said, don't think we wouldn't like to.