A little out of the blue topic today after I chanced upon a video about people kicking the airplane seat infront of them. No no I don’t kick seats infront of me or had fellow travellers kicking my seats before. It’s the basic reclining seats. No choice lah! Me is poor people so can only travel in poor people class so EY configuration is tight.
Usually when I need to recline my seat, I will turn back and let the person behind know I’m reclining my seat. I don’t ask for permission 🤣,I let them know (so if they have a cup they will hold onto their cup while I do so. Not nice for me to suddenly recline while they’re watching movie.) Once done I turn back and thank them. No need for all these courtesy talk talk but ….imagine confined in that small metal plane and goodness knows how long those people have flown prior to this sector, the last thing I want to have is a confrontation between the person behind me and I.
As for the people sitting infront of me, let’s say 9/10 people don’t bother to tell me and just recline quickly and suddenly or maybe some wants to let me know but I’m already 💤 in my lala-land 😂. In all my travels, only twice I had the person reclining his/her seat suddenly (coz they don’t have the habit like I do to check behind) when my big head was there 🤣 and hit me. Once I was putting my pouch in the seat pocket and it dropped all the way in, I leaned forward digging so I can bring it up for easy retrieval when I need. Another time was to reach for my bag on the floor. Both times I made a soft ‘ouch’ and tapped the person on arm (or maybe they also felt the resistance - my head is big rmbr?). Both of them brought their seat upright. Once I’m done, I let them know they can recline their seats. Ok lah! They happy I happy. One of them upon disembarkation apologised to me but I said it was alright she didn’t know. I laughed it off saying that we both moved at the same time but I hope I didn’t shock her when I had to tap her arm quickly.
For my Seoul flight last year, the lady infront of me let me know she’s reclining her seat. Which is really rare for me to encounter lor! Then in my solo Japan trip this year, I was so surprised that a Japanese mother asked me for permission (even before the plane was taxiing) to recline her daughter’s seat. Ehhh…..of course she has the right to recline her seat. But I guess this is the polite Japanese style.
I had an embarrassing incident when both the latch and the metal thing holding the tray was tight. The lady had her seat reclined and I was keeping my tray table. The screeching sound and soft push coz I couldn’t get the hinge up and my “aiyoh” made the lady bringing her seat upright. I had to tell her it’s ok to keep her seat down but I do apologise if I pushed her seat coz the hinge wasn’t that smooth gliding and latch is tight. Two meal service on that flight 🤭, second time same thing happened again I had to keep apologising to her. Thankfully she knew it was no bad intention from me. Upon disembarkation, I had to apologize again. Not that bad lah! She’s a nice understanding lady.
Hmm….makes me wonder why is it that most times it’s the females that had the interaction with me. The guy who hit my big head didn’t interact with me. Ego? Travelling with spouse?
Do you check before you recline your seat?
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