Posted on 07/28/2023 5:30:37 PM PDT by thegagline
Their inability to plan was totally not her emergency.
A traveler is being lauded online for her response to a mother who tried to take away her dream seat in first class — just so she could sit closer to her teen.
Sabra, a Seattle pharmacist and influencer who posts on TikTok as @lifewithdrsabra, posted a short clip from a recent Air France flight from the Pacific Northwest to Paris, detailing the situation and how she dealt with it.
The 6-second video, captioned “POV: Flight agent asks me if I want to give up my 1A seat so a child sits with their family,” shows her lounging on her first class seat, while a popular TikTok audio drop — “Girl, f – – k them kids and f – – k you too” — plays in the background.
“That’s a no from me dawg,” Sabra wrote in the caption with a laughing emoji, asking her followers: “Would you have given up your seat?”
The clip has been viewed over 9 million times, with many people — parents included — agreeing she shouldn’t have been expected to move. Many applauded her for standing her ground.
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“Nope, cause, as a mom, it’s a parents responsibility to plan ahead,” added another. “Just traveled to Europe for 1.5 months with my toddler and no one had to move.” *** Some suggested people do it to wrangle their way into a free upgrade.
“Just know they booked two business and one eco thinking they’ll strong-arm someone into giving up their seat,” commented a user.
“I wonder if some families actually on purpose buy the cheapest tickets, to plan to ask someone for their seat. *** “So no, I am not a terrible human being,” she quipped. “Also the child was like 13.” ***
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Expecting an upgrade is ridiculous.
Within a class, I have offered my seat so that family can sit together. I’ve flown often enough that a window seat is not a big deal. However, if I really wanted a window seat, I would not give it up.
Also “a child” is not a teenager in my opinion. I suppose one could argue that a 60 year old is a child to their 80 year old mother, but that is not what readers have in mind when there is a reference to a mother and her child.
On the other hand have given up my seat for people who really were in need.
It all depends on what you ask, how and why.
I still think wet start john McCain should be in an unmarked grave in north vietnam
The family could have easily swapped their first class seats for seats closer to their kid… don’t know anyone who won’t trade business or coach seats for a first class seat
Could easily swap their higher seats for eco seats near their kid. Don’t know anyone who won’t swap up. But instead wanted someone else to swap down.
It’s pretty simple. If the seat change allows me to move up, and to and not to a middle, I’ll do it. But not moving into a worse seat. All I know is that economy is hell for me now any way I slice it. Unless it’s under 2 hours.
This is our culture of entitlement. It doesn’t matter what you pay for or work for, what matters is what we want. The whole thing sounds like a setup to me. Conniving, cheap, woke parents.
On a sidebar, if your 13 year old can’t sit by themselves for a few hours on a plane you’ve done a piss poor job of raising your kid.
“According to the story, they purchased two First Class seats and one Econ so they thought they could get a first class seat for free and guilt someone into giving up their First Class seat and taking their Priceline.com seat.”
According to a commenter that only read about it, they purchased two Business class seats and one Econ ...”
I don't think there was a bus on the plane.
Something similar happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I got to my aisle seat and found a young man occupying it... he smiled and asked if we could swap so he could sit next to his wife.
He wanted me to take his middle seat in exchange for my aisle. I said no, if it had been an even exchange I would have agreed but I’m not taking a middle period.
The flight was just under three hours. Somehow they survived.
Mr. SPOOOCCK !!! I need some help over here !!! The Vulcan Death Pinch or something !!!
For over 20 years I flew around the country on business
about once per month.
It only happened to me one time...
I always carefully selected my seat in advance.
Someone asked me to swap, for what reason I can not remember.
I said: no.
They said: why not.
I said: well, if this plane crashes and burns,
and we are all burned beyond recognition,
and the only way to identify the bodies
is by what seat they were sitting in,
then I don’t want to be buried in your family plot,
and you probably don’t want to be buried in mine.
The person walked away with no response.
MANY years ago, a flight attendant asked me to change my assigned seat that i was sitting in so a “family” could sit together ... i would have to give up an isle seat for an window seat ... nonetheless, i cheerfully said i’d be happy to allow the family sit together if the airline would move me to first class, which in fact had empty seats ... the airline declined my generous offer, apparently because the airline itself didn’t give a crap about the “family” sitting together ... at any rate, my offer made the airline the bad guy, not me ...
I wouldn’t give up my first class seat for my own kid. He would just be thankful he’s flying to Disney World even if it’s in the cheap seats. My counteroffer to the parent who wants my seat for her kid is I would accept provided she gives up her first class seat for my kid and both kids can sit together in first class. Somehow, I don’t think she would take me up on the counteroffer lol
Brilliant!
The obvious move here would be for the family to swap what 1st class seats they had to go sit with their kid in steerage.
To make the request in the other direction is simply offensive.
I am worse than you. When ask to do that I politely say, “Sure, for the price of my ticket in cash”
Funny story: waiting to board a flight from Charlotte to Orlando the announced over the intercom that parents with children and seniors could board first.
I turned to the guy behind me and said, “We’re going to Orlando. Parents with children and seniors is the whole damned plane.”
I’m not giving up my seat either. I don’t have to because I am not about to get in an oversize cigar tube with a bunch of nuts already in the can.
Good question. 👍
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