A woman kept reaching across me to close the window on our flight, so I got my revenge

Nabbing the window seat on a flight can have its pros and cons. I love it because I like being tucked away and being distracted by the view.

My husband, however, hates it because he never wants to bother the person on the aisle seat if he needs to go to the bathroom. 

One woman has found another con for being allocated the window seat after things got rather uncomfortable for her during a short domestic flight. 

The woman, who took to a ‘petty revenge’ thread on Reddit to share her story, was flying a short-haul flight when the female passenger seated next to her kept invading her personal space. 

“I was flying in the window seat, because I like looking out the window. The woman sitting next to me reached in front of me multiple times to close the window shade,” she woman shared.

“She never asked me, she just reached directly in front of me to close the shade. I would immediately reopen it, and a few minutes later she would reach in front of me again to close it.”

The woman continued to explain that there was really no reason for the shade to be down – it was a short domestic flight and they were not taking off or landing. It appeared as though the woman, who was wearing headphones the whole time, was just trying to be annoying. 

“It was a noon domestic short haul flight, so no reason to need darkness in the middle of the day. And absolutely no excuse for violating my personal space multiple times without asking me or acknowledging me or treating me like a human in any way,” she said. 

Woman’s petty revenge 

Annoyed by the woman’s lack of care, the passenger then explained how she reacted – and that’s when things got a little petty. 

“So I pulled out my book and turned on the reading light, despite there being ample natural light from the open window for me to read. I then positioned my hands in such a way that my watch would reflect the reading light directly into her eyes,” she shared. 

“I read like that for an hour, jiggling my hand the entire time, so it would shine the light back and forth across her eyes and be super distracting and annoying.”

But it didn’t stop there. 

Once the plane disembarked, the woman took things one step further and confronted the other passenger the moment she took her headphones off. 

“I turned to her and said ‘next time you fly, book a window seat if you want to control the window. Or at least treat me like a human and ask me before you violate my personal space. What you did is unbelievably rude,’” she shared. 

“She looked SO OFFENDED.”