You have got to love the Internet.
It is a place filled with conspiracy theories, fake profiles, bucket loads of whining and more arguing than divorce court. It can be a mess.
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You have got to love the Internet.
It is a place filled with conspiracy theories, fake profiles, bucket loads of whining and more arguing than divorce court. It can be a mess.
Take the reaction to a recent story about woman who reclined her seat on a plane and the man behind her – in the plane’s last row and unable to recline himself – punched the back of her seat. Repeatedly.
This, of course, is raw meat for the arguing masses online, and boy, was it fun to read the comments. From legitimate news sites like the Washington Post to tabloid sites, the comment sections were loaded with support and disdain for both sides when it comes to reclining seats on planes.
I wrote about airplane etiquette not that long ago, and I fall firmly on the side of not reclining your seat on a plane. I am nearly 6-feet, 2-inches tall and weigh more than I should, so someone in front of me reclining their seat pretty much insures that my knees will be broken, and I will have to crawl off of the plane.
But that doesn’t mean I would punch the seat of the person in front of me who did it. In my mind, of course, all bets are off. But in the real world this is a childish move. Simply ask the person to not recline so far. As this man could not recline, he had the right to be annoyed, but not be a complete jerk.