After I got on the plane, a woman rushed to the empty seat beside me and plopped her daughter into it. She explained she\u2019d bought last-minute tickets and they couldn\u2019t sit together. I felt bad for the kid, so I offered her my seat. She thanked me \u2014 barely \u2014 and I squeezed into her seat: a cramped middle seat in the very last row, beside the bathrooms.<\/p>\n
About an hour into the flight, turbulence started. People were restless, and the smell from the back wasn\u2019t helping. I tried to distract myself when suddenly the same woman stormed down the aisle toward me, furious.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to switch back,\u201d she snapped.
I blinked. \u201cWhy?\u201d
\u201cMy daughter doesn\u2019t like sitting alone anymore. I want my seat.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed. \u201cMa\u2019am\u2026 your seat<\/em> is this one now.\u201d<\/p>\n She raised her voice \u2014 loud enough for half the plane to hear. \u201cI PAID for that seat! You need to move!\u201d<\/p>\n A flight attendant stepped in. I calmly explained that I had already switched with her at the beginning of the flight. The attendant asked her, \u201cDid you agree to the exchange?\u201d The woman reluctantly mumbled yes.<\/p>\n \u201cThen he stays,\u201d the attendant said firmly. \u201cSeat changes are final.\u201d<\/p>\n The entire back row applauded quietly.<\/p>\n The woman huffed back to the front \u2014 and her daughter? She waved at me and smiled.<\/p>\n Best middle seat I ever sat in. \u2708\ufe0f\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After I got on the plane, a woman rushed to the empty seat beside me and plopped her daughter into it. She explained she\u2019d bought last-minute tickets and they couldn\u2019t sit together. I felt bad for the kid, so I offered her my seat. She thanked me \u2014 barely \u2014 and I squeezed into her …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}