How Parent Dealt With 'Rude' Plane Passenger in Front of Child Cheered

In-flight entertainment is a godsend when flying with children, but one child's experience was almost ruined by the person sitting in front of her.

Reddit user Annual_Duty_5258 shared a post on January 8, explaining that their daughter's screen was "obscured" by a woman's hair that was placed over the back of her seat.

They turned to the internet for a second opinion to find out if they dealt with their predicament in the right manner.

"My daughter asked her to move her hair but she wouldn't," they wrote.

The parent asked the flight attendant to deal with the situation, but after 15 minutes, the woman's hair was back where it shouldn't be.

So they decided to take matters into his own hands and switched seats with the daughter when she went to the bathroom.

"She asked why I moved and I said that I really liked the woman's hair and I wanted to get a better look at it.

"The woman heard me and she immediately pulled her hair back, tucked it in, and pulled her hoodie up. My daughter didn't notice. She was happy with her movie. I was happy to have a nap," they wrote.

While the internet agreed that this was the correct way to deal with the issue, the Redditor's wife didn't think it was necessary.

The post conclusion says: "My wife says that I should just have switched seats and not said anything to make that woman uncomfortable. I think she needed to know that she was being rude."

Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization (ATO) serves more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers over 29 million square miles of airspace, so squabbles among passengers might happen more than you may think.

Newsweek spoke to Katy Maclure, an in-house flight expert at Jack's Flight Club, an email newsletter and mobile app focusing on helping subscribers find cheap flights.

"The passenger did the right thing by getting the flight attendant involved after they first asked the other passenger to move their hair," Maclure said. "Generally this is the best way to avoid direct conflict with other passengers. As they experienced, however, it doesn't always do the trick."

At the time of writing, the post has amassed 9,100 upvotes and almost 700 comments. You can read the original by clicking here.

One user said: "Yes, I adore this. You ensured that your daughter could continue to watch her film while also making Karen feel awkward about her snotty behavior. You win the Dad of the Year award. NTA."

"Making her feel uncomfortable - NTA. Honestly, I would have taken my shoes off and put them up on the seat. Give the entitled idiot a taste of their own medicine," said another.

A third comment said: "Flying back from FL [Florida] with 3 very tired kids after a long summer vacation, a young woman did this to me. I just said in a loud voice, "Oh darling, don't wipe your nose burgers in that lovely lady's hair, let me find you a kleenex." Never saw a Karen move so fast in my life. OP, NTA."

Newsweek reached out to u/Annual_Duty_5258 for comment. We could not verify the details of the case.

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