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I usually just talk to the person in front of me to inform them that I'll use a laptop. Maybe I'm lucky but it's usually pretty easy to work it out. I had never

• wink 11y ago
  Other people find it rude to recline. I mean, I had people stop reclining because they couldn't move their seat. They look back and see me smiling because my knees block it. Disclaimer: I'm from Europe, we usually fly in very small planes where there's literally no way to have space unless paying 2-3x the price for business class.
  • vidarh 11y ago
    > Disclaimer: I'm from Europe, we usually fly in very small planes where there's literally no way to have space unless paying 2-3x the price for business class. In my experience, domestic US flights and even some transatlantic flights with US carriers, are just as bad unless you pay extra for more premium carriers or upgrades, just like in Europe.
  • calgoo 11y ago
    Same here :) I can handle 2 hours more less with no space (easy Jet for example), but anything more and my knees start to hurt. I also think its incredible rude to recline, especially forcefully, like some people have done to me. I think that these egomaniac people are the same that get to the end of an escalator and stop to see where they should go, or exiting a train and doing the same thing blocking the exit / entrance to anyone else.
    • loco5niner 11y ago
      I think you are projecting "egomaniac" on people who are likely ignorant of the problems they are causing.
  • madeofpalk 11y ago
    Rudeness is not an appropriate reaction to rudeness. As my mother told me, "Two wrongs don't make a right"