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I told a white lie to try to keep the seat next to me on a free flight, and almost got kicked off the plane when the cabin crew found out.
A woman has revealed on Reddit how a white lie landed her in hot water during a flight.
The passenger, believed to be from the US, does not specify where or from where she was flying, but tells the social media site that she hatched a plan to try to gain some extra legroom when she noticed that the plane was “halfway”. full’.
She explained to a fellow traveler who arrived to take her seat that she was saving space for her husband, even though he was actually traveling alone.
However, her plan fell apart when the man she had lied to became upset when her husband did not arrive to take said seat and alerted the cabin crew to her falsehood, who warned both passengers that they would be kicked out if they did not. resolve the situation.
She explained on the social networking site: ‘I (25F) had a flight. When we board, the gate agent says the flight isn’t even half full and they need us to split up to distribute the weight evenly.
Who has the reason? A woman who tried to gain extra legroom on a flight by lying on top of someone sitting next to her had her plan backfired when a fellow traveler called flight attendants.
“I was sitting in the middle seat and they kept repeating that the flight was only half full, only 75 people on the flight.
She continued: “Almost literally at the last second a man (50 years old) walks up and says ‘I’ll sit next to you’ without even asking, that gave me a red flag on him and I’m like ‘actually my husband is going to sit “here”. The truth is that I travel alone but as a young woman I avoid telling people.’
The man was unfazed, clearly smelling a rat in his story, and said he would take the window seat.
He continues in the Reddit post, titled ‘Am I the idiot for not wanting someone to sit next to me on a plane?’, that he then told her ‘I’ll sit by the window’ before she replied that ‘the flight is only half full, there’s tons of space’, hoping it will move.
She adds: ‘So I move to the aisle seat to avoid a problem and he says ‘so where’s your husband?’ I ignore it. She asks again, ‘Should we have the flight attendants hold the flight for her ‘husband’?’ she air quotes and I ignore him again.
After he calls her a liar, she reveals that her husband is actually deployed to the Middle East, but that doesn’t earn him any empathy.
The lone traveler goes on to explain that the cabin crew got involved after he alerted them to the conversation.
“A flight attendant comes up and asks me what’s going on so I start to explain and of course he talks over me so another flight attendant comes up and says I have to move.
“I look at her in shock because I got there first and didn’t cause the trouble he did. She says either one of you needs to move or you’re both off the flight. So I grab my bag and move.
He added an edit to the post to later clarify that he had not sworn and only raised his voice “above the normal polite tone,” and that the cabin crew near his new seat, at the back of the plane, were sympathetic to What has passed.