Airplane passengers agree that, ‘people who ask you to switch seats are the ultimate thorn in your flying experience’: Personal stories are shared to back this decision

Flying used to be a luxury experience. Never for anyone under 50 years old, but it apparently used to be very relaxing and fun. Now, the first thing you experience when you get to the airport is the unnerving feeling someone might have slipped a kilo of illegal substances into your bag while you nervously walk around in your socks… Doesn't sound as luxurious anymore. Plus, if you want any sort of comfort on the flight, you need to dish out the cash. So if you want extra legroom or just the assurance you'll get an aisle seat, you have to add an extra $50/$60 to your already expensive traveling. So back in the day, if someone asked you to switch seats with them, it probably just meant you were switching to a similar seating situation. But now, when someone asks you to switch seats with them, it usually means they're asking you to give up the window seat you paid extra for to a middle seat by the bathrooms… It's not ideal. 

Many people who fly seem to agree that people who ask to switch seats are the scum of flying. Of course, there are exclusions, like when the airline screws over a family and separates a 2-year-old and a mother even though they had tried to plan ahead and get seated together. But mostly, the general consensus is that it isn't so much asking to switch seats; it's how you ask. If you're asking someone to switch seats, make sure you are offering them a seat that is an upgrade from their current one, and always ask without an expectation that they will say yes. The entitlement in some of these people trying to switch their coach middle seat for a business seat is absurd!  

Top 20+ Choosing Beggars of the Week (August 5, 2023)

It's remarkable how people can be demanding and desperate at the same time. One has to wonder what possesses these choosing beggars to be so audacious. Not that I am envious of this complete lack of self-awareness, but I do have to consider what life would be like if I was this kind of person.

 

Think about it for a moment. Imagine having the level of confidence to just demand things with literally no leverage whatsoever. Imagine having an uninhibited "nothing left to lose" mentality when going through a negotiating process. Imagine having zero authority in the matter but speaking with such forthright conviction as if you did. 

 

Yes, these people are wild, and their points of view are far different from actual reality. It's not exactly a decent way to live, and it's certainly not a generous one to others, but when you care that little about facts and generosity, actual reality doesn't affect you in the slightest. And as annoying as that might be for everyone else… if we're just considering your experience, it's kind of great? Just some food for thought! Personally speaking, I clearly do not identify with these folks!

 

Keep scrolling below for these top choosing beggars of the week. For more content like this, check out these nightmare boss stories!

'[She] changed our sign to say 'open': Gift shop employee stops customer who insisted on shopping in a closed store

This customer has a life hack to get into any store. All you have to do is take a little initiative. What could go wrong? 

U/Sparrowmoss shared this wild story of customer entitlement. Some customers take deep offense to stores being closed, or having hours of operation in general. If the customer can't get that random item at 10:59pm, they'll insist that the store is in the wrong. It's not the employee's fault that customers procrastinate so badly that they intend to shop at a store that's closing in five minutes or less. They have no regard for employees, either. This OP even told the customer that they were quite ready to head home for the day, but who knows if the guilt trip worked on this confused customer. 

It seems like a lot of customers are so crabby because they've never worked a retail job. They don't care that employees are people too — they just need to get that last-minute carton of milk or a random shirt. They just have to try again tomorrow! 

Up next, here's another story about a customer who couldn't understand common sense and logic: she wanted help from the only employee who wasn't able to assist her. 

Top 31 Unpopular Opinions of the Week

A lot of people think that free speech has gone out the window, that cancel culture is rearing its big ugly head and scaring folk into speaking their mind. Ever heard of the spiral of silence? People will only voice their opinions if they think that other people may share the same views. Then people end up staying silent on a lot of other opinions they may hold, and poof, who knows if anybody actually agrees on anything anymore? What if everyone is holding back the same opinion? It's exhausting just to think about.

I have definitely felt the pressure to zip my mouth, as I don't exactly want everyone to roast me. Thankfully, r/unpopuaropinions exists, a safe-ish space where we can speak our minds. We'll still get some backlash, but that's kind of the point of the subreddit. Below you'll find a compilation of some pretty unpopular opinions. Or maybe they're less unpopular than they originally thought, seeing as some of them had a lot of upvotes. Scroll down and be the judge. For more, here is an employee who refuses to work overtime when they're not getting paid for it, forcing their boss to change the rules.

'I cut down the tree': Neighbor challenges guy to cut down his tree, gets left with debris

Now I'm not saying that cutting down your neighbor's tree based on a verbal agreement is a bad idea (it is), but if you've ever gone down the internet rabbit hole of "tree law," you'll know that it's serious business with potentially astronomical consequences. Cutting down your neighbor's tree is no small thing, especially when you intend to do it out of spite and unexpectedly leave them with the job of clearing the downed tree out of their yard.

Still, when this neighbor found themselves repeatedly faced with the frustrating task of clearing leaves and downed branches that were ending up in their yard from their neighbor's tree, they decided to take the limbs off that were sprawling over the fence. When they were out sawing off the limbs, their neighbors came out and suggested that they cut down the entire tree instead—so they did. 

The original poster of this story wasn't very popular with readers, which is a pretty uncommon thing to happen on these Reddit threads; usually, readers enthusiastically buy into the poster's narrative of events. But the original poster's general hostility didn't enthuse readers of this thread, and they deemed their reaction to a few leaves to be an overreaction—they weren't happy about the fate of the poor tree either.

Read on to see the original story and the reactions from the comments of the original thread.