[over the mountain]

if i feel like it, i recline. ive never had an issue with it personally. never had a person kick or hold up my seat back, never had an issue with someone reclining into me, yeah its a bit annoying when someone puts their seat back but thats just the way it is. im of the thought that the person in front of me has a right to recline.

if someone asked me nicely to move my seat back up and they had a legit reason (i.e. tall person) then i would most certainly do so unless it was a long flight and i wanted to try and get some sleep, then i would tell them "sure no problem but when i get tired im going to have to put my seat back".

if it was some small person or a person who wanted to use their laptop on their tray and my reclining effected that, i probably wouldnt unless they asked very nicely.

some people recline, others dont.

i had to fly with my lil brothers girlfriend last week. she said repeatedly before the trip that she doesnt like sitting next to strangers on the plane. we fly southwest, she is OCD so she pretty much gets in the first boarding group, im usually in the last group.

so she gets on early, grabs an aisle seat with a stranger sitting in the window seat, so when i come on the plane i have to first go back 20 rows to find an over head storage bin (which goes against my civil rules, put your overhead above your head rule), then i have to sit in the middle seat next to a stranger and her. kinda sucks but whatever. when the plane lands im that ahole who has to push thru people to get back to where my overhead carry on is.

so on the flight back, same set up but she boards alil before i do this time, but this time there is a complete empty row right behind her yet she still chose a row where someone was already sitting in the window seat and she took the aisle seat to force me into the middle seat and to ensure a stranger doesnt sit next to her.

well, i had already had it with this know-it-all, i want an expensive wedding law school student, so when i see the set up i tell her im sitting in another row. just realy rude of her to place her wants of having an aisle seat and not having to sit next to a stranger vs placing me in the middle seat next to a stranger, which i dont mind, i had a great conversation with a minnesota grandma on the way up. but to force me to sit in the middle seat unnecessarily, man, eff that with a wiffle ball bat.