To Be Annoyed With Man on Plane

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Was on a short flight home last night, budget airline. Was sat in the middle seat between two men. Man in window seat arrived when we were all sitting down, so we had to get up to let him in. No problem.

He sat down, immediately touching my arm, so I sort of shuffled up, and he withdrew, only for this to be repeated a few times. So I ended sort of hunched up over at the side of my seat. He was one of those semi body builder types, tight white t shirt revealing colourful tattooed arms. Again, not a problem. I just didn't want to sit with our arms touching, as if we knew each other intimately.

He started making comments about the plane taking a long time to taxi to the runway (it didn't really), I just ignored him, closed my eyes and began to snooze. Only to be woken up by more arm touching, bumping and muttered comments. I ignored him. This clearly annoyed him as he tried to make conversation, I opened my eyes, sort of grunted to acknowledge but make it clear I didn't want to make conversation.

More bumping and jostling. Over the course of that 1 hour 10 minutes flight, he got up and down to the toilet twice, ordered a cup of coffee, leaned over me to get it, touching me again, told the waitress he didn't need sugar "because he was sweet enough anyway" and "we could all do with a bit of sweetness in our lives". I continued to ignore him and try to sleep. He then turned his Ipad headphones up full volume, which I could hear, but I ignored it. By this point, I was determined to give him no reaction whatsoever as I had worked out he was an attention seeking type. He then started singing to the music, and then started dancing in his seat (upper body only).

Thankfully, we landed. As we did, everyone in the outer seats got up and got their cabin bags out and the aisle became very packed. I remained sitting as I couldn't see any point in getting up. After what must have been no more than about 30 seconds, window seat man got up and climbed over me. He actually just climbed over the top of me, no excuse me, I want to get out. He then stood stuck at the seat next to me for the next ten minutes until we could leave the plane.

It was the worst person I've ever sat next to on a plane. Ever. Am I being U to come to that conclusion?

OMG at the nose in arse crack!

This guy sounds like a true knobwit. I would strongly suspect that he has no friends.

I only snuffle the arse cracks of my very favourite men.

Flying demands complete silence. I cannot bear the chatter and wriggling that goes on around me, the "have I got the tickets/passport/that queue looks shorter" type prattle and the leaping from seats before the belt sighns are off.

I fly a lot and I hate to admit it but I wear sunglases to shut out the eye contact and headphones to keep the prattle to minimum. During a flight I rarely engage with fellow passengers although on one particularly rough and turbulent flight when I was white with fear the man next to me asked if I would like to hold his hand and I said "yes please"! And it helped!

evans the mans girth was integral to the story. If he hadn't been so very overweight he wouldn't have pushed his arse crack into the face of another passenger.

The man on the other side of me gave me some boiled sweets in a very sympathetic way when aisle seat man was on one of his toilet trips!

I am sure I come across as a rude, surly old misery guts by my fellow passengers.

oh, that's entry level.

try some of this lot..

www.facebook.com/PassengerShaming

I agree with PersonofInterest, it is integral to the story. A story that I can't get out of my mind, poor girl that is not a nice way to be woken up.

Why didn't you just say to him you were going to sleep? All that passive aggressive humphing and grunting sounds exhausting.

I pray you never have to travel on the tube in rush hour. You may implode in sheer rage. And that would be a shame.

He pushes his great girth past the aisle lady smushing her face with his huge bottom. Like full on nose is arse crack totally smothered her. Awful. Just awful.

OMG. That just made me roar with laughter

evans the mans girth was integral to the story. If he hadn't been so very overweight he wouldn't have pushed his arse crack into the face of another passenger

Of course he would - those seating arrangements are designed specifically so. The slimmest of people would be shoving their bottoms up any seated person's nose, unless the seated person elects to stand to allow the evacuee to evacuate their imprisoned seat. We've all been there, for goodness' sake - don't make it a "fat" issue. I had a very tall chap fall asleep and laid his head on my shoulder, for a couple of hours. He wasn't fat, but he was very tall and Dutch. The fact that he was very tall and Dutch made no difference to me - he was simply a man who'd fallen asleep in his seat. I didn't make a fuss, neither would I if it had been someone overweight.
Would it be okay if I said "Bloody Dutch man" or "extremely tall man"? No, it wouldn't
I don't understand the prejudice ? ?

But at least on the tube there is the option to force your way down the carriage move or even - worst case scenario - get off.

The slimmest of people would be shoving their bottoms up any seated person's nose, unless the seated person elects to stand to allow the evacuee to evacuate their imprisoned seat.

I disagree

I have never arse cracked anyone's nose while squeezing by.

But you think describing someone as a man is acceptable? Why is someone's sex necessary to the story?

Why is someone's sex necessary to the story?

Why does it have to be necessary?

It could be used for imagery.

Have you ever flown EasyJet, Worra? - it is totally impossible to get out of an inside seat without asking the person on the outside seat to stand up to let you by. Sorry, but it is an almighty challenge!
You must be particularly nymph-like to be able to fly out of your inside seat without disturbing your seated companions. I'd like to see video evidence, please

I bet the woman who had arse snuffling enforced upon her still has an expression of shock and horror on her face.

He pushes her great girth past the aisle lady smushing his face with her huge bottom. Like full on nose is arse crack totally smothered. Awful. Just awful.

Ooh! Some might enjoy that

I would have preferred this journey to the 5 hour plane journey I had last night when the baby directly behind me screamed her head off for 3 hours. We landed at 2am then had a 3 hr drive :)

Today 16:44 squoosh

'told the waitress he didn't need sugar "because he was sweet enough anyway"'

People who say this should be shunned by society. Possibly executed.

I completely agree.

Being tall and Dutch had nothing to do with falling asleep on you.

Being very fat was entirely relevant to his huge bottom in someone elses face.

braces self for further allegations of fat-ism

No Evans I've never flown with Easy Jet

But then again, I've never flown out of my seat either

And call me bizarre, but I've never felt the need to video my comings and goings for evidence

username Sorry, I was attempting to be snarky given some of the comments further up - it didn't come across right (and it shouldn't have come across at all really). I just hate comments about being "fattist" when someone's weight is actually relevant to a story.