A plane passenger has caused outrage online after posting 'unflattering' pictures of his seatmate on board a flight. A user on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted two photos of the woman sitting in his row - one showing her asleep and another with her arms up as she leaned against the seat in front of her, exposing her underarm hair. 'My flight from Knoxville to Houston was amazing. Now on to Cleveland,' the man, who posts under the username @Shawn172519, scathingly wrote.
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In the thread, the male passenger claimed that the woman took over his seat, leaving him with little room. He did not specify what exactly his other problems were with his fellow traveler but went on to ridicule her looks. 'I was smashed against the window,' he claimed. 'I'm 6ft1 and around 200lbs. She commandeered 1/3 of my seat. She had lifted the armrest,' he complained. 'When she leaned forward, I almost lost it. It was a completely full flight. I couldn't move,' Shawn added in another comment.
One plane passenger has caused outrage online after posting 'unflattering' pictures of his seatmate on board a flight. 'She even took her shoes off and was snoring,' Shawn said of this flight experience. Shawn's post proved to be incredibly divisive, with dozens of others rushing to share their thoughts. Some users agreed with Shawn, expressing their sympathy. '[Imagine] the male equivalent and that is what I get stuck sitting beside almost every flight. I'm so sorry,' one user wrote.
'So why didn't you put it back down and put your arm on the arm rest ? Protect your seat Shawn,' urged another. 'Flying made me realize that hygiene is optional for too many people. I'm sorry,' another passenger wrote. But others called Shawn out for taking photos of the woman. 'The fact you see nothing wrong with posting pictures of strangers on the internet is something,' one person hit back. 'You know what's gross about this? That you felt the need to take pictures of this woman and post them for entertainment. You're disgusting,' slammed another X user.
In the thread, the male passenger claimed that the woman took over his seat, leaving him with little room. Shawn's post was divisive, with other passengers sharing their thoughts. 'What exactly possessed you to take unsolicited pictures of someone whose greatest crime was minding her damn business?' chastised someone else. 'Would rather sit next to her than you, a garbage person that literally went out of their way to shame her on social media with pictures,' pointed out another.
Earlier in the week, a TikTok user, based in San Diego, California, sparked a debate over the responsibility of the person sitting in the aisle seat on a plane, claiming they must always get up if other people in the row want to get up to use the bathroom. 'I know it's annoying [to get up] but unless you physically can't - which if that's the case I totally understand - but if you physically can, you just need to get up and go and let the person out,' the woman who posts under @deetsontheeats said in a recent video.
She detailed a recent occasion where her seatmate had refused to stand to let her out of her seat. Although her fellow traveler did begrudgingly stand to let her out in the end, the content creator was annoyed by the interaction. 'It's like just gotta get up guys, you just gotta get up,' she simply said, before assuring viewers that understands that not everyone is physically capable of moving. 'That was not the situation here,' she declared. 'You must simply just get up.'.
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