Passenger Outraged Stranger Won’t Switch Seats with Her After Her Own Husband Refused to Do the Same

A passenger who was minding his own business on the flight got into an awkward situation between the couple.

The 45-year-old asked the Reddit subreddit AmITheA—— if he was wrong to refuse to switch seats with a female passenger, who was sitting between the original poster (OP) and her own husband.

“After settling in, my wife leans over to me with a sweet smile and says, ‘Would you mind switching seats with me? I really can’t fly well in the middle seat,'” he said.

“So I leaned over and asked if that was her partner, to which she said, ‘Yes, that’s my husband.’ I told her that I would never want to come between a husband and a wife, but I was more than happy to help accommodate by switching with him so that I would be sitting in the aisle and the two of them [of them] could solve it themselves.”

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The woman then replied, “Oh, my husband would never sit in the middle or by the window…so maybe you can do the woman a favor and change?”

The OP explained, “I told her I was really sorry, but I wasn’t going to do it.”

He knew the woman wouldn’t be happy if she didn’t get what she wanted, but he was surprised when “A few moments later, I hear her yelling at her husband in another language (which I speak fluently) that ‘The jerk doesn’t want to change places so he you have to trade with me.'”

But the story was not over yet. OP watched the husband switch places with his wife. Then the husband “leans in with a smile and says his wife has replaced him because she has diarrhea and needs a passage in case she has to run.”

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People agreed with the OP’s decision not to interfere in what appeared to be either an argument between a couple or a passenger feeling entitled.

“I travel a lot for work and this happens a lot. I’m a woman in my 30s so 100% of people think I should be a nice girl and move around – even cabin crew sometimes! Never give up lol,” wrote one commentator.

Another commenter hilariously wrote: “I would reply to that old man in his language ‘your wife is a bully, enjoy her diarrhoea.’ ”

The OP confirmed that he got his last word then, adding, “I actually wished them a good rest of the day in their own language at the end of their flight… the look on her face was priceless.”

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