Airlines have developed a pulsating skill.
It’s called lump as much as you’re free to onto the passenger.
Is it truly surprising that passengers, being mere humans, become frustrated?
But how should that frustration be expressed?
On Sunday, a woman wanted to recline her seat.
The man immediately behind her was employing aKnee Defender.
This is a somewhat draconian rig that prevents the seat in front from reclining.
You clip it onto the seat in front and suddenly its occupant is paralyzed.
As the AP reports, the woman in front didn’t take kindly to having her movement restricted.
The two passengers were removed, but no arrests were made.
However, actively preventing a seat from reclining represents a significantly aggressive act, couched in a defensive posture.
It claims to be the protector of the tall against ever-decreasing legroom.
I will update, should they lean in with a response.
We’re only one step from standing tickets,which some airlines have already contemplated.
These laptop lizards seem to have no clue how their typing (and flailing elbows) might annoy others.
Slapping them in your own self-righteous seat-cuffs is a touch provocative.
Some might describe this as an argument of which the NRA would be proud.
Spirit Airlines thinks it has a solution for all this.
It describes its new seats as “pre-reclining.”
This would be a euphemism for “don’t recline at all.”
So who’s right?
The passenger who wants to recline a seat that does actually recline?
I fear the Supreme Court may soon have to sit and ponder this one.
