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(daveduke007 @ Jun. 04 2007,18:22)
Had this on the leg from Doha back to Manchester last trip... I ALWAYS make sure I get to check in early so I can get an Aisle seat. This Asian lady with many kids wanted to re-arrange the seating plan and this scouse bird wanted me to move in between them all
Why dont they get there early... The stewardess asked me if I would mind moving and I replied "no fucking way" I'm staying put. I then overheard the scouse bird telling the stewardess to make me move, nearly some "fireworks" I can tell you...
(stogie bear @ Jun. 04 2007,11:05) Large Asian families who insist on re-organising the whole seating plan should be ordered off the plane and forced to charter their own mode of transportation.
Why dont they get there early... The stewardess asked me if I would mind moving and I replied "no fucking way" I'm staying put. I then overheard the scouse bird telling the stewardess to make me move, nearly some "fireworks" I can tell you...
At first I said 'no' but quickly realised that I was being a total dick and within a minute I got up, went over to the guy and apologised for being a twat and he and his girlfriend enjoyed their flight.
In the meantime I was stuck in the middle of five seats feeling claustrophobic and pissed off. Pissed off because I was acting like a jerk and also that I was sitting in the dreaded middle seat after I had already booked and gotten my precious window seat...
But it's one flight in a million for me and for her it's a big deal... Fair enough...
A couple of years prior to this I was in another favoured window seat when a turban adorned gent insisted that I move so his family could sit together. It wasn't just me, either. He was also intimidating the woman sitting a couple of seats in front of me and she looked like she was gonna burst into tears.
I'd had enough... I stood up, looked him directly in the eye and loudly shouted that he should wait until the plane took off before he started playing games with the passengers and if he didn't sit down himself I'd call the captain to have him thrown off for intimidating and threatening behaviour...
He sat down...
But I wouldn't have had the balls to do that if it hadn't been for another experience I had had a few years earlier...
There I was in an aisle seat and this English family refused to control their kids on a flight from London to Dallas...
The two kids were WAY out of control and their parents didn't give a damn. This went on for over an hour as these two kids upset dozens of customers and nobody did anything about it.
I'd had enough... I stood up and grabbed one of the kids. I held him high in one hand and screamed at the family that they were behaving like an English version of The Simpsons and if they didn't control these children I'd do it for them...
There was a deathly hush on the plane and then a trickle of applause which turned into an eruption of applause.
Later the stewardesses came over and thanked me and explained to me and all the passengers nearby the reasons why they were not able to interfere, but were gratified that I had done.
When I walked off the plane my friend and I were handed a carrier bag full of whisky and wine!
Since that experience I have occasionally got up in a visa run bus and sang and danced if the music has been too loud because Thais won't complain. I ask them to turn it down and when they ignore me I'll just get up and groove to the beat till they DO listen...
My behaviour also got me into lost of trouble with Kui and my second wife, but it works. I almost always get my own way. And it's not an unreasonable 'way'. Just normal standard procedure in my book!
Yes - I'm a total fucking ass... ask me if I care what you think!
Do you care?
I often wondered when I turn left getting onto an aircraft what all that space is for behind the wings and now I know - its a zoo - must be a nice feature to keep the animals accupied I guess. 
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