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?

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.

If he pushed past her facing the other way , she would have ended up with her face in his privates haha

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned it in previous responses but the OP's annoying fellow passenger screams 'terrified flyer' to me. All that babbling, getting upset about the plane taking ages to get to runway, climbing over OP to get out of his seat ASAP etc. Doesn't make his behaviour any less annoying but perhaps excusable?

I just didn't want to sit with our arms touching, as if we knew each other intimately.

Sorry, I did laugh at this bit. But I travel on the tube at peak time a lot.
OP, if arm touching is intimate then you're not doing it right

Except the cringey dancing bit, he really doesn't sound that bad to me at all. If anything, someone ignoring me when I tried to make conversations with them and then pointedly giving me the cold shoulder and pulling away if our arms accidentally touched (which happens A LOT on budget flights) would be a far worse person to sit next to.
Sorry, OP

Yes, he was an irritating sod at best. and as for just clambering over you very very rude!

I have had the ultimate bad experience, when I was younger and I used to commute on a public bus, I was travelling home and this man got on and decided to sit next to me. Full of the old chat and it was quite clear he had been boozing heavily and even had the bottle of vodka swigging it! I got offered some! And he pulled out a huge roll of maybe £20 notes and showed me He was very humiliating and I was extremely uncomfortable, but shit scared of him. He was trying to kiss me getting hold of my head; putting his arm round me, meanwhile everyone else on the bus were completely ignoring him..the bus driver who was local and seem to know him just kept looking in his mirror. I had the journey from hell and prayed for the time when I could get off..he asked me where I lived and I remember being terrified he would follow me in the dark. He asked me my name, I lied and he wanted my phone number again, I lied. (Remember I was young and scared).

Anyway, it turned out some three years later he was working round my landlords place fixing a boiler. He was well known in the area as the local boiler installer. And when I was out at work one day he came up to my sister who was at home at the time (me and my sister rented together)..and said "You've got a sister haven't you? I met her on the bus once"! He knew the connection. Freaked me right the hell out that did. Thankfully some 13 years later I've not set eyes on him again, and never will I want to.

Anyway, I forgot to add, thank your lucky stars you weren't sitting next to him! I think you can go away and feel that no real malice was intended..not so sure with mine.

I see your touchy feely man and raise you 'The Honeymooners'! Young couple sitting next to me on a long haul flight. They decided that they needed to pull out their laptop and watch their wedding video without any headphones. And it obviously needed a commentary such as 'you looked so hot that I almost came in my pants' and 'I wanted to fuck you right in front of Granma Ethel'. Then we had to critical analyse the kiss and undergo some experimentation about other options they could have tried. When that was over, the wedding night video started. Yes, they had filmed the entire thing. And they were very "enthusiastic". It was the point where I noticed she had her hand down his pants, and he had his up her skirt that I had reached my limit. Apparently they are 'in love' and just couldn't keep their hands off each other, even on a packed plane.

On another note...you could have been sat next to this lady...

Nothing to add to your thread but you've reminded me about the time I fell asleep on a flight to Italy. I woke up and my head was on the shoulder of the poor bloke next to me! I had drooled and everything haha! Poor man.

And the worst bit? He was on my flight home and I ended up sat next to him again. 'twas terribly uncomfortable lol

I dont know how a person can avoid arm contact with the person sitting next to them in economy on any airline, let alone a budget one.

He was dressed like a nightclub bouncer, in his fifties and I wouldn't be surprised if he was on something. He issued a couple of orders to the man in the aisle seat next to me and seemed wired, ie tge type that would kick off at the slightly st provocation. The type that made everyone else look the other way. He probably thought I was a young girl he could chat up during the flight. If I could have seen a free seat to move to, I would have done. He completely creeped me out.

The climbing over me at the end was the worst bit. The unfasten seatbelt sign hadn't even come on. It was just so disrespectful. I did shout at him to stop behaving like an animal when he did it, but his I pad was still turned up full version and ge didn't hear me.

The arm touching and jostling was definately deliberate to get a reaction. The dancing in the seat to his i pad was beyond weird. I've never had to spend time in close proximity to someone who behaved that badly before. The flight was full of handsome Scandinavian men too!

Thanks for some of your stories, they have cheered me up!

I've only once been the "jump up immediately and get off plane when it lands person" that was earlier this year when I landed at gatwick south and had 30 minutes to get off plane through immigration to gatwick north through security and on my flight home. Should have had hour 15 but first flight was delayed.

Made it to flight 2 but pretty sure I took out so many people on the way....

Faultless, I doubt this bloke could have done anything right.

Cariad -totally agree with you there!

And as for SouthernSheperdess's link for the "Happy Lady" - It seems quite clear to me that the poor lady had some kind of mental health issue, so for those spiteful girls to be filming and laughing about it is pretty poor form. If that had been my DD doing the filming and cruel laughing, I would have had something to say about it, for sure! Pitiful behaviour!

Faultless - if ANYONE had jumped over me at the end of a flight (or during)! in the way you described,regardless of size, age or how he/she may have been dressed, I would also have had something to say about it. Age, size or attire has absolutely nothing to do with it, whatsoever. Sounds simply as though he was just a complete bellend of a person.

He pushes his great girth past the aisle lady smushing her face with his huge bottom

Is this an extract from the Weight Watchers version of 50 shades of grey?

whois - have just literally cried laughing at your arse in the face story. Wonderful. You write very well.

I was in a delayed flight from barcelona. Last plane to leave for the night. We were all tired and I knew I had a 3 hour drive home once we got back to the UK.

I had an aisle seat. The other seat occupants were a married couple, both fairly large (relevant only in that I had less seat than I'd paid for as a result of the husband spilling over into my seat). As soon as the plane started to taxi I closed my eyes, hoping for a few hours' sleep before we landed.

The couple then proceeded to have an argument conducted in loud whispers. It was a pointless argument as they were arguing over something that might have happened, but didn't. This didn't stop them from calling each other all the names under the sun.

Luckily I had earphones so, with the aid of some relaxing music, I managed to start to drift off to sleep. Only to feel the husband climb over my seat. I opened my eyes to find him straddling me, one leg on each arm rest. I was staring directly at his gonad region. He didn't apologise, merely continued his trajectory over my prone body and headed for the loo.

I made sure I got up when he returned. Still without an apology or explanation, he slunk into his seat. I couldn't sleep again for fear of what may occur next.

Never been so pleased to get off a flight.

The incident with whisky-arse-crack man is etched indelibly on my mind, glad it made a few of you laugh. It's was quite traumatising at the time (mainly for aisle lady obviously).

I'd rather be woken up by a shake on the shoulder than by having my head pinned to the back of my seat by an arse.

Evens his size, but notably his girth are integral to the story. If his body shape hadn't been so round in that typical male large-belly-large-bottom way the face smoosh wouldn't have been so sever!

Anyway, it was a good learning point for me and I've never missed online check in again:-)

Last year on another over night flight, but premium economy (so only the window and aisle seat and slightly wider than economy), I was the aisle and a seriously huge man came over to get in the window seat. I had flashbacks to whisky man and was dreading the flight but my goodness this man must have been a contortionist in a previous life or something.

I got up to let him in, he wiggled and juggled and managed with some effort to wedge himself fully into the seat, did his seatbelt up and then quickly did a funny folding motion with his arms so he was hugging himself and all locked in place. Not a cm of him spilled out into space which wasn't his. Many wide arm men would learn a lesson from this guy!

He then fell asleep (sleeping tablet?) and didn't get up until we landed in london. Didn't even stir for food or drink. Can't have been very comfortable for him really but suppose without going up to business/first there isn't much else he could do.

YANBU but tbh I expect this kind of experience and then I'm pleasantly suprised when I get anything else.

Ultimately it was a fairly short flight, if uncomfortable. It could have been worse