What would you do? A man was recently applauded for refusing to give his seat to a pregnant woman while aboard a flight — and now the situation is getting viral attention.
The New York Post reports that a Reddit user took to the community to see if he was in the wrong for how he handled an incident involving a pregnant woman and his airline seat. The man wrote that he purchased a plane ticket next to a bathroom due to his having medical needs, and it was going to be a rather lengthy flight. When he was ready to aboard said flight, he encountered a pregnant woman who asked him if he’d be willing to trade seats with her.
“Right before boarding, a woman asked me to give up my seat so she could sit closer to the bathroom. She was pregnant but did not seem distressed,” he wrote.
When he declined, the woman became argumentative and continued to demand that he give up his seat. According to the Reddit post, the woman went as far as trying to get flight attendants to intervene and make the man hand over his seat. Of course, the flight attendants couldn’t and wouldn’t give in to the entitled pregnant woman’s request. In the end, the man kept his seat and the pregnant woman kept hers.
While some comments on the Reddit post seemed to disagree with how the OP handled the incident, the overwhelming majority of comments applauded him for standing his ground. After all, he was the one who paid for the seat nearest the bathroom, and she had an opportunity to pay for a more convenient seat as well. Just because she didn’t plan accordingly, does not mean other people are required to trade seats with her. Furthermore, being pregnant doesn’t grant you entitlement points in public.
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