r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No-Detective7811 • 4d ago
I'm slightly vexed Entitled Traveler Aisle 14
5.5 hour coast to coast flight. He boarded before me (aisle). I had to bend down and wave in his face to get him to see me during boarding (I had window). He did the whole audible sigh and dramatic show of how I had clearly inconvenienced him. He finally got up and out of his seat BUT refused to unplug his phone from the seat back charger in front of him, so all 5’ 10” of me had to crawl under his cord to get to my seat. Whatever, turd move, but whatever. Anyway, cabin door closes and I was pretty excited that the middle passenger didn’t show up—until Entiltled Aisle dude decides that all of his spent snack wrappers should be pushed as close to me as possible. And he was very particular about it. Spent several minutes ensuring each wrapper was pushed as close as possible to my seat. What is wrong with people!?!?
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u/FingerSandwiches86 4d ago
Right?! Thank you, voice of reason.
I would ask politely for him to unplug it once so I can pass by to my seat. Then a second time (still politely) much louder so people around are made aware of the situation before I've reached my limit, because that's when I just walk through the cord while staying as close as possible to the USB port on the front seat. At the very least, the side with the cord slack should get yoinked right out of the phone port, but best case scenario, the whole phone comes flying out of his hands, bouncing off every hard surface/corner imaginable.
Then I would apologize while also finding a way to work in some form of the word "yoink," because I bet that would be like adding a cherry to the top of my tasty rage bait sundae.