To think this woman was weird on the plane?

[ChicagoNoie]

Long haul back to London, overhead bin above me was full so I put it in the one opposite.

Woman behind me seemingly annoyed by this as she said challengingly that she wanted to put her bag in there. Then made me move my bag to the centre of the bin with a patronising “is that ok?” And put her bag in …

Then walked off to sit in her seat 4 rows away from the overhead bin. So no more entitled to use it than I was.

Aibu to think this is just odd, like she could have just placed her bag in the centre and left me alone?

Even when we left and she walked by down to get her bag she was smiling at me smugly.

I'm not having a go at you (you've got enough numpties already doing that.)

I would probably have behaved as you did but then spent days beating myself up for not being more assertive or not coming up with a witty riposte that would have put her in her place ... but maybe the important thing is to realise that the world has plenty of weirdos and we need to think how we can reframe how we perceive them so that they don't drag us down to their miserable level.

But no she didn’t make me as in held me at hun point

God - that wold have been awful! All the fish lips and eyebrows and botox and "You ok?"'s. 😱😱😱

I'd definitely have moved my case if I was threatened with that!

Please don't spoil it for us 😂

Sorry hun x

You’re probably right.

But even now I still don’t have a witty comeback for her. At most I could have said - sounds like a you problem and sat down.

😂😂😂

I once put my camera bag and a small handbag in the overhead bin, a woman yelled at me that I was only allowed one piece of luggage in the bin. I pulled a carrier bag from somewhere, put them both in it and replaced in exactly the same space!

I think I just fell in love with you, @JudgeJ 💘

😂😂😂

To counter the people complaining about the “trivial” content of this thread, I just want to say that my exact thoughts when I saw the title were: “Oh brilliant, I love a plane thread!”

And I don’t think you were unreasonable Op, I think a lot of us would have acted in the same way as you, it’s easy to have advanced warning and plan out exactly what witty response you’d come up with, but when it happens spontaneously it’s not the same situation.

Finally, I have to say I love “hun point” 😂 Definitely gives me MLM vibes and the way we get sucked into those types of conversations!

So all in all, what a fantastic thread this is! 😄

You don’t need a witty comeback.

So you put your bag in overhead opposite which has plenty of room. Women says ‘I want to put my bag in there move yours down?’’ in an annoyed manner? (I’ve made this up as OP hasn’t actually said what the woman said)

I would have said ‘there’s loads of room next to mine’. And not moved my bag, smiled and sat down. No confrontation but equally I wouldn’t have spent the whole flight being pissed off with her. Or let her get away with being rude/weird.

What!

You might not be start inga negative thread, but I'll bet you'd have bored the socks off all of your family, neighbours and colleagues telling them how you "won that one"!

The triumphant leaving smirk tells us all we need to know . . .

Woman says not women

Thank you. I hope people continue to comment and share their plane stories

This thread is full of crazy

I know @Clymene - it's brilliant, isn't it?

I had a strange encounter on a plane once...one of those moments that comes to mind now and again reminding me how odd it was.

I was flying with an 16 month old -a mercy dash so that my dying granny could meet her great grandchild.

We'd flown a lot due to not living on the mainland and I'd learned that we needed a window seat to save wriggly infant/toddler arms roaming into the narrow, small plane, aisle. Booked and paid for a window seat (DS to be on my lap with lap belt).

We were made to board last. For some reason the usual call for people with children or disabilities went out but asked us on last rather than first. Which is fine of course, but I mention it because I wonder if the weird encounter arose because the person thought I was "late".

So we board an already full plane. Small plane with 2 seats on both sides and narrow aisle. DS is quiet and happy -this is not a crying baby story. We get to our row and the person who has boarded first is sitting in the window seat rather than the aisle.

I say, "excuse me, we are in the window seat, would you mind letting us in"

She stares at me, absolutely poker face and points at the aisle seat.

I say, "thanks, but we booked the window seat"

She stares and points again. Not a word. I repeat myself and she shakes her head no, then looks away avoiding all further eye contact.

Steward comes over and asks me to sit down. I explain that I've booked a window seat to keep my son, his limbs etc out of the way of the hot drinks trolley etc. Steward looks at my ticket and tells the woman. The woman, again points to the aisle seat.

Steward says, "can't you just sit there?" seemingly having given up on any sensible communication with the lady -I wonder if they'd already had some sort of encounter.

I say, "I'd prefer not to..."

Steward firmly tells the woman to move from my seat.

The woman then moves from the window seat directly to the aisle seat without letting us in first.

I literally have to climb over her (ass/crotch dilemma etc) to get into my seat, while holding DS.

She then sits there staring dead ahead for the 90 min flight. I never heard her utter a single word at any point.

Bizarre.

well This is a whole weird micro analysing a something and nothing thing

I love the stories where the other person was clearly very rude or weird eg @Psychonabike
Less so the stories where the poster actually seems like the rude one but wants us to be complicit in their self-congratulation.

Mmm . . . I would have been tempted to tickle the baby until he became so excited he threw up on her.

What an extraordinary confrontation.

Wtf you’d make an infant vomit?

I can’t get over the pointing 😅 and the fact it was just a 90 minute flight. Bet the middle seat got a good show.

@Emotionalsupportviper it was extraordinary. The child in question is 11 now and I still get a sudden memory of it and think, did that really happen? I have no idea what went on with the woman and the steward before I boarded but at the point the woman sat in the aisle seat without letting me in I did make a sort of gesture to the steward like "what am I supposed to do now?" And they just shrugged. Hence the climbing in. It was all so weird.

Nowt so queer as folk!

You told anyone in RL OP? What did they say?

No, she wasn't.