The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat
I just wish that, if they&#x27;re gonna shrink the seats, they would prevent them from reclining. That, I think is a big part of the reason why the smaller sizes are so terrible.<p>A few months back, I had a pretty terrible experience on a flight when the woman directly in front of me, who was maybe 5&#x27;2 and 120 pounds, decided to recline her seat all the way back. It made what was already a cramped flight for me (I&#x27;m definitely not 5&#x27;2 nor 120 pounds) pure torture. I did all I could to try to convince her to push it up, but she wouldn&#x27;t.<p>The flight attendant—this was Delta, by the way, so screw them-sided with the person in front, saying it was &quot;their right&quot; to recline their seat in a way that makes people uncomfortable.<p>This was on top of a bad flight situation where I was dropped off to a different city than my luggage because my connecting flight was delayed.<p>The flight attendant tried to appease me with beer. She would have better appeased me had she ignored her airline&#x27;s policy in what clearly was an unfair situation.<p>That&#x27;s the problem with flying these days. They constantly force passengers to choose between one undesirable choice and another, and nobody is happy as a result.