Entitled people, a pet peeve.

Not sure if you are on instagram BUT if you are--go follow Passenger shaming!! OMG the things people do in airports and planes. But that is a HUGE pet peeve of mine too.

I only do that if the seats are empty, like at 5 am. But if there’s lots of people I move my stuff to the floor. How rude. I hate traveling because the most entitled people are there. Don’t even get me started about boarding group c crowding the gate before group a has been called.

That Instagram is entertaining!  Watching porn in front of all the other passengers?  I bet he didn’t have earphones in either, making others have to hear it.  Surely there has to be a rule against watching porn on an airplane.  Especially if there are children nearby.

My favorite was the window shade war.  It had to be a prank because the guy messing with the shade in the other passenger’s seat was filming it.  Why have your own window shade open when reaching to close the shade of the passenger in front of you?  If it is too bright, put on sunglasses, a sleeping mask, or just close your eyes.  That was pretty nervy.

Someone did this to me on my flight last week. I boarded last so I didn’t have to stand in the aisle the whole time (I was feeling dizzy, and was too self-conscious to early board). I get to my seat and there’s a dog in it. On a sold out flight. The woman says, “this is her (dog’s) seat.” I said my seat is 6A according to my ticket. The attendant walks up and looks at the ticket in my hand and says, “looks like it’s her seat ma’am.” The woman says, “No. I paid for this seat for my dog.”

So the flight attendant asks for the ticket for the dog. Meanwhile I’m standing there, exactly what I was trying to avoid, starting to feel faint over an entitled lady and her dog. So then the woman decides to go through the motions of looking for a ticket for a couple minutes like the whole plane isn’t waiting on her and witnessing this. She then just gives up the charade and casually moves the dog under the seat in front of her. I finally sit down, we take off, and she actually started talking to me like she didn’t just lie a bit ago to take my seat. Like, okay, we’re just pretending that didn’t happen then I guess. 👍 Flying brings out the weirdos much like the DMV.

Oh my word.....I’m sorry that happened to you when you weren’t feeling well. 

This was before 9/11, but I was asked once on a small plane to move my seat since a couple did not want to sit apart for a 30 minute flight. I agreed because I didn’t want to cause a scene (I was all buckled in and comfy). So I move seats and the lady in the row I moved to had her stuff under both her seat and what was mine. I had no where to put my carry on. The flight attendant was no help and she put my carry on in a bin at the back of the plane. Did I mention my carry on had all my money, credit cards and id in it?! Yeah, I wasn’t happy. And what was the lady next to me carrying with her - she was traveling with a couple of 2.5 water jugs!! And then she wanted to talk to me the whole flight. Thank goodness it was only 30 minutes. Not happy with that couple or the flight attendant!

I've done the bag thing. Usually it is because dh or a kid is in the bathroom and was sitting there

I don’t travel a lot, but I have heard too many terrible stories about switching seats to accommodate a traveling couple. Sorry, not sorry, but if you can’t be apart from each other for the duration of a flight, you need help. If you failed to plan properly to sit together, I am not switching unless it gets me a seat upgrade.

And the lady next to you? I would have engaged in some self-help when the attendant mentioned the bin in the back by handing her the item under the seat in front of me.

We have had situations where we were not offered the option of choosing our seats at booking and the airline split the three of us up including our young child. Sorry, but NO. That didn’t work for me at all and I refused to let my four or even eight year old child sit between two complete strangers for a 3+ hour flight when DH and I would be seated 2-4 rows away. That’s just asinine and completely unacceptable, especially since they know the ages of the passengers when you book the tickets. We made a stink so that one of us would be seated with our kid and someone did have to get moved. Sorry not sorry. It never used to be that way, you used to always be able to choose your seats when booking back in the day. Now you only get those privileges when you pay exponentially more for your seats.

So, you ask to sit, just as ANY person would, and they just stare at you? I do NOT get it !!!! It is horrible how many people are rude and
self-absorbed!





OMG...SO much yes !!! We had those "neighbors" annnnnd, they were also letting their doors slam at ALL hours !!!! DH and I were dealing with 2 arthritic doggies in a stroller, so it's VERY easy to let the door slam---which DID accidentally happen once or twice---BUT, at least we think of the other people and always TRIED to be sure it didn't slam.

I also caught myself talking to DH WAYYY too loudly in the hallway around 11 at night, then felt terrible that I may have woken someone(s). I felt ESPECIALLY bad because I'm sure there were stressed out parents of little children who were hopped up because of Christmas, and how mad they'd be that some idiot (me!) woke them out of a sound sleep! 


Also, in the room above us, someone STOMPING around constantly--I kept imagining Sasqwatch/ Big Foot !!! WHO stomps like that?  






We stayed at two different, very large, newly constructed, pretty La Quintas. I kept telling DH with alllllll
the rooms in these hotels, what were the odds we would be RIGHT NEXT to the slammers/ loud talkers Oh wait, there were probably MANY of them!

Totally understandable to save your travel companions seats while they use the restroom for 5 minutes. 

I just took at peak at that Insta....OMG, the guy PICKING at his bare feet !!!!!!!!!!


I'll have to check more of this later. I wonder if there's a similar one about rude
people in doctor's waiting rooms.....OMG.....everrry time I go to my orthopedic surgeon, the
rudeness makes me so angry, which doesn't help my pain! GET EARPHONES to play
games and/or watch videos, people!


STEP OUTSIDE to talk LOUDLY on your phone !!!!
DH and I are SO tired of hearing entire, longggg conversations----it doesn't seem real how
oblivious some people are! I sometimes wonder if we're being punk'd

Kids are a different story. They need a responsible parent with them. I’m talking about married couples who complain when they can’t sit together.