I was told to switch seats 3 times on my flight by 3 different people and I was seething

A flight passenger on a recent trip found himself or herself nearly switching seats three separate times with three separate individuals — begging the question, How many requests to switch seats on one flight is too many?On the subreddit known as r/unitedairlines, a user referenced a recent flight involving multiple seat changes and little ability to decline the requests — until things came to a head.“I was going to visit my family in San Juan … and I treated myself to a first-class window seat on the left side of the plane so I could see my grandma’s house [while] coming in,” wrote the Reddit user and flight passenger, “u/makeurownsandwich.”“When I arrived [at] my seat, there was a very elderly woman in the aisle seat and another woman in the aisle seat across the way,” the person wrote.“The younger woman said, ‘This is my mother.

She has dementia and she can’t even feed herself.Can we switch so I can care for her during the flight?'”The passenger promptly relocated to another seat. Just a short time later, two other women approached the same flyer and asked the person to move once again.

They asked the passenger to move to the aisle seat so the two women could sit together.“At that point, I was seething — but seeing as I’d barely touched my butt to the new aisle seat, I just said, ‘Whatever,’ to them and moved,” the flight passenger continued.Then, the Reddit writer went on, “when a THIRD person came up to me to start the ‘hi, um’ — I immediately said, ‘I have switched twice already.You can take it up with someone else.’”The passenger did acknowledge that he or she could have refused to switch each time — but said it was a desire to be empathetic and accommodating to others in those situations.“I know I chose to move for these people, but I’m so upset that I paid for that specific window seat and my options were basically, help a woman with dementia but enjoy my view — or move and sit in an ...

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