Plane seat drama

But isn't it "a bit cheeky" of the couple to demand to be given the seat the OP had paid for, for free? If they want the seat, they should have to pay for it, why would they be entitled to if for free? Ridiculous!

”… a spare seat between DH and me”

You missed out “…booked tickets for X, Y, X and I”.

Not really. OP bought it, they want it so they should buy it off OP. Why on earth would they expect someone else's paid item be given to them for free?

Apply it to any other scenario, for example:

Say I have Taylor Swift tickets booked for me a three friends and one can't go in the end. One of the other friends knows a friend of a friend who got bad tickets way at the back but would prefer to sit at the front in the good seats. Would you then expected I give that ticket away for free just because I already paid for it, my friends not going to be sat there and this random stranger wants a better experience but they don't want to pay for it?

Hell no, it doesn't work like that. Its cringe to demand freebies from strangers and then insult them.

No. Had you not checked in for that passenger you could have reclaimed the airport tax.

I'd have gone and sat in seat D and annoyed them even more 😂

Erm, no. Grammatically me and I are not interchangeable: it depends upon what/who the subject of the sentence is and how the main verb is being used. The test would more appropriately be ‘the seat next to me; the seat next to DH’ where ‘I’ does not work. You would use I if you were saying ‘DH and I sat with a seat between us’.

It’s an informal forum so it doesn’t really matter - but it’s definitely ‘between DH and me’.

And re the seat, if the airline and the air crew agreed that the empty seat was allocated to your party, even after the no-show, then obviously it was your choice how you seated everyone. Tbh, for a short-haul flight, and seeing a couple struggling with a baby, I’d have been inclined to free the seat up - but maybe not if they were abusive before I had the chance to do so.

Cheeky fuckers! Not a chance if they’re gonna speak to you like that. I like to think I’d have ended it by telling them I needed the extra seat for my fat arse, seeing as I’m such a “fat bitch” but would likely have actually just felt upset and shaken by people being so horrible 😫

No u were In the right regardless of rudeness! It belonged to you and you paid for it 😆😅

That might generally be the case but somewhere in the distant past the OP stated:

”I had contacted easyJet about keeping the seat so we had more space, they agreed this was fine but we could not take 4 carry on bags only 3 and I had followed their instructions on how to let gate staff know etc”

So in this specific case the airline had approved the seat becoming a paid for “comfort” seat for use by the OP.

No. If They want an extra seat , they should pay for an extra seat. Preferably when they book. Taking a paid for seat from another passenger is not on.

Oh yes. When someone at work tells me that ‘Mr X would like to speak to yourself’, I want to poke my ears out.

The OP didnt pay for extra space. They booked a seat for a person who didnt board. It is not the OPs seat- it reverts to the airline.

If the person for whom the seat was booked then the seat reverts to the airline. They could have put someone in standby in it.

If you want a 2nd seat them some airlines allow you to specifically book this but it can be more expensive than just booking 2 seats with the 2nd in a different name (even allowing for APD). But just booking and then the person not turning up doesn't make it you seat-it makes it an empty seat on the inventory.

Shout out to @TheFifthTellytubby! My people.

Oh god yes, it's like the unnecessary myself to sound posh. As in, perhaps you could call myself to discuss this further. This causes me actual physical pain.

Yes, it's like people who use "whom" incorrectly for emphasis, or "yourself" and "myself" instead of simply "you" and "me". You're right, it's a losing battle. Still drives me nuts, though!

It’s not. You cannot use ‘I’ as the object of the sentence. You would not say, ‘please give the book to I’ would you? You would use ‘me’.

I think the use of phrases such as ‘dh and I’ when they are not the subject of the sentence, has been normalised. This is how people on reality TV speak and they clearly think they are being ‘proper’ with their use of language. Poor old ‘me’ has become redundant. It’s a losing battle.

"DH" and "I" are both objects of the sentence following the preposition "between" and therefore the object form should be used - i.e. "me". They perform the same function within the sentence, therefore swapping them around shouldn't make any difference. "Between I and DH" is every bit as incorrect as "between DH and I". The correct formulation, as explained by OP above, is "between DH and me".

I would have offered the seat - you seem rude and uncaring for someone with two kids. Have you forgotten how hard it was?

They sound rude and entitled

You are both AH in this.

Err no, but that's not what is being discussed is it?! I don't understand what you're trying to do with your comment.

The asking for money part is to make the point: it's not a random seat, OP PAID FOR the seat. If you want an extra seat, you should expect to pay for it too.

How about "between I and DH" - does that also sound right?

Btw what’s a CF I read it a lot in here lol