Woman Refuses To Give up First Class Seat So Family Can Sit Together and Everyone’s Applauding
As a frequent flyer who's fed up with air travel drama, I'm joining others in calling for an indefinite moratorium on seat-swapping. What should be only an occasional request has become an epidemic among entitled passengers trying to take advantage of people's goodwill!
Seattle-based doctor @lifewithdrsabra was the most recent victim of a seat-swapping attempt. With a front-row first-class seat at stake, though, she wasn't about to cave to passenger peer pressure!
Oh no, are you serious? They got the flight attendant involved? Someone in the cabin must have been a real Karen!
I mean, how old was this kid that they made the flight attendant go around searching for volunteers? 3? 4? I assumed that if staff was getting involved, the child in question must have been pretty young. But no- as Dr. Sabra adds in the caption, "The child was like 13." OK...
Seriously, this "seat-switching" thing has got to stop. I even try to give people grace most of the time- sometimes people have to rebook a cancelled flight or are stuck with crappy last-minute seats. But the golden rule of seat-switching is "Never ask for a swap unless the seat you're giving up is equivalent or better." Dr. Sabra paid good money for her seat in 1A... I doubt anything else on the plane could measure up!
Still, even when put into such an awkward, guilt-trippy situation, our protagonist stuck to her guns and kept her seat. And while a few people here and there called her "selfish" for it, the majority of viewers were overwhelmingly on her side.
"Nope, cause, as a mom, it’s a parent's responsibility to plan ahead. Just traveled to Europe for 1.5 months with my toddler and no one had to move," one parent defended her.
"I wonder if some families actualy on purpose buy the cheapest tickets, to plan to ask someone for their seat 'I got kids, please move'," mused another viewer. OK- I feel cynical for admitting this, but considering that the kid in this story seems to be the only family member not in first-class, I had this same thought...
Look- flight snafus happen. Air travel is a chaotic, messy ordeal, and sometimes things don't go the way people planned. But this epidemic of passengers trying to angle for the most unfair, unbalanced seat-swaps ever has got to stop! Congrats to the good doctor for not giving up her seat- you've gotta hold onto your wins when you have them!
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