A post about a frustrated airline passenger who requested a new seat during a child’s mid-flight meltdown has gone viral on Reddit.
Shared by u/InternalProgrammer34 in the r/AITAH subreddit, the post has garnered almost 10,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments since it was uploaded on May 21.
The post was titled: “Am I an a****** for requesting a new seat after a special needs kid had a 2.5 hour tantrum on an international flight?”
The poster said that the incident began approximately 30 minutes after takeoff.
“The kid behind me had an inconsolable meltdown and was screaming and forcibly kicking and hitting my seat and even knocked my headphones off my head with his fist,” the Reddit user wrote. “After about an hour of this and his parents not being able to control him, I rang the service button and asked if there were any other seats I could move to.”
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