to ask someone to move their child out of my plane seat

[kipperssippers]

more of a WWYD then AIBU but...
i booked the seat by the window as i always do and when i got to my seat a child around 8 was in my seat with her mum beside her.
When i got there i told the mother that the window seat is my seat and she said her child wanted the window seat to look out, i then replied then you should of booked one.
I didnt want to cause a scene but the women made out i'm an arsehole for asking her kid to move as she had never been on a flight and wanted to look outside.
I did give in and stayed pissed off for 7 hours in my non window seat.

what would you of done in this situation?

I prebook seats on trains planes cinemas theatres etc because they're the seats I want and I like to save time and know the space I want to be in in those different settings is available to be. I like to spend extra time in the duty free knowing I have the seat I want on the plane. Everyone knows if you've not hooked you may not get what you want. But based on Cats post I think next time I go to the theatre I'm going to book the back row but sit in the front row because everyone should be kind.

Wonder what tmrws will be....

Off to watch Throw Mamma off the train again.

Love a good comedy

expat good. I sadly don't like it. Like I said I find it cold and unfriendly

CatsMeow, imagine a plane or train half-full of parents who thought their kids were entitled to sit where they liked & everybody else had to just fit in & say "oh of course, the little darlings, let's never say no to them"

Jesus

The magic of childhood - what uttet tosh.

Try working in a school where many of the kids are selfish, entitled and materialistic ( traits no doubt instilled into them by their lovely parents

Yeah - truly magical

You're just not bothered about treating fellow adult members of the public with respect then?

I don't live in London btw

jane no I didn't. Someone was in front of me blocking the door. I was behind. Then people were behind me.

I did explain that numerous times

What if the OP had been an 8 year old child?

expat good. I sadly don't like it. Like I said I find it cold and unfriendly

Well what magical place do you think is so wonderful then?

I haven't said never say no to them.

Shut lots of European countries are friendlier than the UK.

Ok so Cat you think children should be able to do what the fuck they want with no repercussions?
I do hope I'm never going to meet you in rl as I am beginning to think there may be hairy hands and bridges here.
Ok this may be getting deleted but this thread is getting ridiculous.

If you convey the attitude in real life that you convey on here I should imagine people might be less than friendly.

you think children should be able to do what the fuck they want with no repercussions?

No. I haven't said that.

i get it now.
TheCatsMeow did a thread where she refused to move on a train
had to AS for that,,,,,,and here they are saying a mum should not move her child from someones booked seat.....
me says goady fucker

Goadiness abounds

sooty funny that as most who know me think I'm lovely.

Despite always having believed the Italians to be a warm and friendly nation, I was more than a bit surprised to visit in the summer and experience almost wall-to-wall surliness and indifference.

"Britain is DESPERATELY proud of itself and seems to think that everyone in the world is clamouring to live there"
Hmm, have you not seen recent news items about migration?

Oh, yeah, we pre-booked seats on a train down to London last month so we could have a table. Two gals were sat in our seats. So we flashed our tickets and they moved. We needed that table to put our prosecco and nibbles on. Anyone trying it on would be shit outta luck, definitely. My wine and nibbles are way more important that whatever shit they're pulling to try to sit in my fucking seat.

Hey, maybe I've gone native .

Only a complete and utter arsehole would plonk their child in someone's seat WITHOUT ASKING NICELY FIRST! I would happily give a child a go in my seat IF THEY ASKED FIRST.

Hehe... Maybe the British seem heartless to you Cats, and not loving children too much, but let me reassure all the other posters that they are not alone being monsters: French people would chuck the kid out of the seat, tell the mum to fuck off s'il-vous-plait. And maybe eat the kid too, for good measure.

I'm not being goady. Someone implied I was a "nasty foreigner" how is that not goady?

Very funny.

lots of European countries are friendlier than the UK.

Lots of them certainly aren't!