📝 AITAH for putting my seat back on airplane?

By Ancient_Building625 • Score: 35 • April 8, 2025 11:38 AM


Last night I (24F) was on a red eye flight from San Francisco to NYC. This is almost a 6 hour flight overnight. I was sitting near the back by the window. The plane was not very full most of the back rows were empty and most middle seats were unoccupied. After take off I put my seat back and fell asleep. Around 4 hours later a middle aged larger women behind me was rocking and shoving my seat so hard that she woke me up. I turned around to look at her and she asked me to put my seat forward so she could open her tray to eat. Although I was really angry at this request, I was half asleep so I just put my seat forward. An hour later I put my seat back again because I was uncomfortable and partially out of spite because I couldn’t believe she was eating a snack tray at 3:30 AM and woke me up aggressively for it. After I put my seat back, she got up and yelled “EXECUSE ME? You spilled my drink all over me!!” Then she muttered “fucking bitch” which I responded the same back to her. I kept my seat back until the flight ended like 10 minutes later. I think her behavior was ridiculous but i don’t know, AITAH?

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