Not Taking it Lying Down
On a 6:30 am flight, and the plane is mostly full. The row behind me has 3 seats and only 1 passenger. After take-off, I lean my chair back about half way and begin to fall asleep.
I felt jostling on my seat, but didn’t think anything of it. A few seconds later, the man in the row behind me smacks my chair 3-4 times, hard.
When I turned around to ask if there was a problem, he began scolding me: Him: “Lean your chair back up! I can’t sleep with your chair in my face!”
Me: “What?” Him: “You have to lean your chair up. I’m trying to sleep!” He was laying across the three seats, with his head at the window (I had a window seat). Apparently, leaning my chair back was not allowed because it was too close to his face.
He refused to lay the other way because the beverage cart would wake him up. He was aggressively committed to his cause and on the cusp of creating an even bigger scene, so I didn’t fight him on the issue. Blue_Irish