A friend of mine wrote a blog post yesterday about her terrible experience dealing with another passenger on a long-haul flight from London to Seattle.
The story was nerve-wracking, and her wonderful storytelling takes the reader through her panic attack experience (and yes, that sentence doesn’t sound right, but I can’t think of a better way to describe the situation). We end up in a very uncomfortable place of understanding.
http://www.everywhereist.com/bullying-sexism-and-panic-attacks-on-planes/
In the end, I wanted to punch the other passenger and give Geraldine a hug. My heart is racing just thinking about confronting this person who I have never met.
This is a story of a man, a bully, an asshole. This person is anonymous. This person is flyer that we all fear. The avatar of every bully we have come across in our lives. The reason why we can’t always have nice things.
Thank you for sharing this. I would have requested police for sure and filled whatever I possibly could against him.
I read this yesterday and was likewise disgusted in that person. Glad you shared it Jeff.
Also thought that sentence could use a different spin. Maybe something like this…
The story:tale/incident was nerve-wracking, and her wonderful:remarkable storytelling takes the reader through her panic attack experience.
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/story
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/wonderful
It is amazing that she was made to feel that way by most likely a sociopath. To physically shake a person and their seat goes way too far. Disagreements over reclining is one thing, but intimidating someone and physically shaking their chair is taking things way too far. I wish the guy had been met by police when they landed. Likely no charges would have been filed, but you would hope that the next time this POS is on a plane, he thinks twice. Had that been my wife and I it would have probably ended similarly, but my wife and I both would have walked to the back to speak with the FAs and our desire to have law enforcement meet us would have been made known. There is no reason to think you can impose your will on another passenger during a flight, end of story.