Oh dear. I might have been said lazy unthinking asshole. In my defense I’m terrible at Tetris.
Once again, ignorant and rude. Stop it.
Bullshit.
What ends up happening more often than this is the passenger will open the overhead, go “Oh, it’s full,” then proceed to shuffle about the plane looking for empty space, slowing down an already slow boarding process, then the flight attendant gets involved, and starts going through the luggage, fitting everything overhead correctly. Jesus, folks. We did not have to go through this!
But back to armrests. Yeah, everyone gets at least one. You can either behave like a giant child and shove the guy (which is also the more fun thing to do), or tell the dude, “Excuse me, sir, but you’re using both arm rests and I don’t have one.” I can’t imagine anyone would respond with “Well tell the other guy to move *his *arm, harrumph!” If someone did, shoving would not be childish, and is totally called for.
Hmm, we’ll let you off with a warning.
Edit: I never knew that reclining your seat on an airplane was ignorant and rude. I guess I’m as terrible of a flyer as people who use touch screens on the headrest in front of me!
We’ve had some shitty treatment the last few times flying. But, yeah, we are on our way to vacation, and no way do we wanna fuck it up. Totally seriously, the flight attendant could glare at me and defiantly spit in my ginger ale and I would just take it and set it aside. Then go back to my book.
And why ginger ale?
I’m just so amazed at this. So? Even if it’s true, so? I mean, doing good things because they make you feel good still count as good things!
FTR, I don’t get upset when people recline in front of me. I would prefer they didn’t, but they have a right to. I just don’t do it myself.
Apparently not reclining is a moral failing, and people that complain about recliners are pathalogical liars.
I’m reading this with interest as I’m 6’ 4" (and I can assure you my knees do touch the seat in front) and I sympathise with those who are annoyed by the person in front reclining.
But it seems to me that there are two camps; those who wouldn’t recline at all out of consideration for the person behind (which is laudible) and those who have a fundamental right-to-recline attitude.
I take the middle way; I just ask the person behind me if they’d mind before I recline (avoiding that holier-than-thou feeling :rolleyes: )
Mind you. My girlfriend does find me “annoyingly reasonable”.
It’s not the reclining itself that’s ignorant and rude, it’s the bloviating that no one under the height of (arbitrary number approaching Wilt Chamberlain) has any right to complain, and that we’re lying about our situation just for the sake of it.
I usually give a glance back before I recline to get a sense of how annoying I’m going to be to the person behind me. I only go all the way back if the seat behind me is empty.
Hopefully they’ll have the under-Atlantic tunnel open by then - I want to see Europe, too. 
It settles your stomach when you’re being buffeted by recliners and aggressive arm-resters.
Being one of those 300-pounders, I plan to defer pleasure trips (that I can’t feasibly drive) till I have enough to buy two seats. The other person in a three-seat row better stay on their side though – I paid for both seats and plan to enjoy the extra partial seat.
I pretty much only travel with hubby, so flipping up the armrest is fine with him, as is snuggling together.
When it comes to flying over the Atlantic, we pretty much have decided to go with Air Iceland - they have ‘saga’ business class that has very comfortable paired seats, and an upgrade economy class that has seats that the arm flips up [the regular economy class arms do not flip up.] They have this great pair of upgrade economy seats right as you come in the gangway, with the steward/ess backwards facing seats and head in proximity. The pair of seats is a bit isolated from the flow of seating arrangement, and are quite comfortable. The price range of all 3 classes is fairly close, and low enough to be reasonable [IIRC we just checked for an Amsterdam flight for the heck of it, basic econo was like $1200, midrange was $1700 or so and saga class was $2200] I would also rate their service as friendly and competent, though the food was about what you can get at the diner in IKEA, a sort of cafe scandanavian.
In the US, I tend to drive and mrAru fly to meet me so I don’t need to deal with the handicapped dog and pony show that flying has become. I don’t mind long solo drives, and it saves his vacation time. That is mainly why we picked up the momvan, we are swapping out the rearmost seat with one that will act as a single bed, it has room for the chair behind the seat, and I can personhandle it in and out by myself relatively easily.
How do you guys not notice what a big difference the recline makes? Unreclined, airplane seats feel like you are resting against a brick wall. Reclined a few notches and it approaches something that can reasonably be called a seat. Now yeah, save the full on recline for the long haul red eyes. But it’s not unreasonable to go back a couple inches on any given flight.
The guy in the OP had the nerve to offer me half the armrest after a spent a few minutes aggressively poking his elbow with mine. No. Fuck you. It’s my armrest. It’s not yours to share.
You know what I hate? When couples grab the seat and the aisle, such that some poor sucker has to sit with them chattering and making kissy faces at each other the whole time. If you are a couple, just sit together and at least one of you will have a good seat. If you want to, switch off.
Most of you have probably seen this. But just in case you haven’t, there it is.
Since its to India, were there also people hanging on the outside of the plane too? 
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There was a thread a few years ago about reclining on airplanes and people were ANGRY about it on both sides.
Reclining people don’t generally bother me. I also don’t care if I have an armrest (I always try for the window seat to curl up against the window) but there will be NO raising of the armrest. That’s not happening. If you’re large enough that the armrest is going to cause you discomfort then you’re large enough that you will be spilling into my seat and that’s not happening.
Where’s Sweeny Todd when you need him?
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