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  If you wanna control the window, buy a window seat. Otherwise, STFU.
context: Alright then, I'll open the window. I'll open it all the way, and now nobody's happy. >
  
  Username checks out >
  
  Dude if I pay extra for a window seat it's my fucking window. If you want window controll pay more for that authoritah >
  
  I have never paid more or less for any position on a row. What airlines charge for this? >
  
  In every airline I’ve ever been on you can just let it assign you a seat for no extra charge, or pick any seat you want for an extra cost. This is important for many people including those with disabilities, pregnant people, people who pee a lot, people who are scared of flights or become claustrophobic easily, etc. I personally don’t care, but you want catch my mom on a flight unless she’s in the aisle >
  
  THIS 
  I have a chronic bladder condition and I have to pee like 3 times per hour so I can only fly in aisle seats >
  
  Nah I'm just afraid I'll see a gremlin on the plane wing. >
  
  YUM YUM >
  
  Wrong movie. >
  
  Did they make a movie out of that episode? Now I need to look that up... >
  
  Yup!  It was from the Twilight Zone Movie from 1983, with John Lithgow in the Shatner role. >
  
  Oh really? Was it good? >
  
  I chose window seats so I am the window operator. >
  
  I feel like you could have come up with a better title for yourself - Lord of the Ring-Shaped Portals or Master of All Openings or something like that. >
  
  “Master of All Openings” should be Johnny Sins official title. >
  
  Does Johnny Sins do gay porn too? I feel like you have to swing both ways to earn that title. >
  
  John Holmes did gay porn.  I neverknew that till a couple days ago. >
  
  The novelty of flying wears off after 4-5 flights per year. It ends up feeling like a long bus ride, basically. 
  Plane etiquette regarding 3 seat rows:
  Seat by window: 1 arm rest, 1 window control
  Middle Seat: 2 arm rests
  Aisle seat: 1 arm rest, extra leg room
  Middle seat/Aisle seat do not get ANY say in the window situation because they have their benefits already. >
  
  It's surprising how many uncivilized beasts don't understand this etiquette. >
  
  OP didn’t. >
  
  OP thinks he likes the setting sun directly in his eyes. Once he had that he will change his stupid opinion. Also a 15 hour flight over different timezones with light you don't want makes you change opinion. >
  
  I get the impression that OP has only ever done short flights and has little concept of the fact that no one wants to spend 9 hours looking out of a window >
  
  I wonder if he knows about clouds. >
  
  I would guess not, I try to avoid remembering that I'm in the sky when I'm flying >
  
  Hard disagree. If you want window access, make sure you sit by the window!!! Too damn bright when it's open, anyway. >
  
  Fuck the window, I need to shutter it to get sleep and to remove myself from the fact that I’m flying through the sky >
  
  Not if you fly United Airlines… they make that choice for you and then will claim the windows broken when you try to undim them >
  
  Seriously? “Broken” is the last word a passenger wants to hear on a fucking plane, that’s a really sketchy practice >
  
  Ever fly early in the a.m.? The brightness is blinding. I'm closing the window shade. >
  
  This has to be someone who doesn’t fly frequently. >
  
  Yeah, a real pro intentionally selects the window seat away from the sun so they can both open the shade and not have blinding sun piercing the cabin so anyone can still sleep.
  Source: 74 flights this year. >
  
  A real pro just selects an aisle seat
  Source: less than 74 flights this year >
  
  Maybe. To each their own. 
  Know yourself and know your plane. I don’t like to be bothered. A window guarantees I don’t have to get up because someone else can’t hold their bladder. Likewise, on a CRJ200 if you’re over 170lbs, and 5’10” sit in the aisle otherwise you’ll feel smushed. 
  To me, the aisle sucks except for the extra space in the aisle you can lean into which makes you subject to flight attendants purposely pummeling your arm or knee. >
  
  I only select window seats for late or early flights so I can lean up against the window to sleep, I prefer the aisle if I know I won’t sleep. I don’t mind getting up to let people out but I HATE asking people to let me out and having to move past them. I hold my bladder like a pro but I’m also a woman so I get periods lol. 
  I feel its more about personal preference than seat picking intelligence >
  
  If I pay for the window seat. It's my fucking window. >
  
  I flew over a lightning storm on a late night flight and I kept getting shushed when I couldn't control myself gasping at how fkn amazingly awesome it was to be above a lightning storm "wooow, omg!" I was quiet but it would just pop out XD I felt bad but omg one of the best things I've ever seen. >
  
  Until the lightning hits your window.... >
  
  You want control of the window, you take the window seat. >
  
  This exactly. >
  
  If you want to control the window, pay more to sit there. >
  
  i don’t think you even have to pay more. you just select that seat instead of aisle. >
  
  You definitely do. Why do you think an airline isn't going to extract every dollar they can? >
  
  No, you don’t. Price is quoted before you pick your seats (class aside, of course). >
  
  Yes and then - if you want to choose your seat they add 10€ on top of it (well in Europe at least). >
  
  yeah, it’s their window. if they got the window seat, they are the window operator. what they say goes. >
  
  I always buy window seat so I can get some sleep in the dark without being woken. >
  
  I used to think this, and then one day someone in the middle seat in my row decided they wanted to spend the entire red eye flight from Houston to LA reading with her overhead light on. 
  Tbh there might have been some etiquette I could think back on to guide me in that situation but I don’t fly much so idk what it was >
  
  Why are you taking a red eye where you want to sleep without bringing a sleep mask? That's just a mistake. >
  
  I thought it was a common thing to sleep on a 3+ hour flight at that departed at 1am on a work night tbh. I thought the only person who had any kind of light source at all was the odd one out. Everyone else was sleeping. >
  
  It’s not “everyone’s light” that’s why the airplanes are kind enough to provide you with a light bulb right above your head. If it’s that much of a problem for you, buy the window and be the dickhead who keeps the window open and keeps everyone up. Simple as that. >
  
  Explain to me how it’s not my window >
  
  I think it’s just common courtesy but honestly that’s just the Canadian in me >
  
  I’m Canadian lol and if I’m sitting window and the suns shining in my eye I’m closing it. If I’m aisle and the person window closes it, oh well >
  
  it’s not a communal window, i’ve been placed at the window and the window gets too hot or cold and becomes uncomfortable when it’s open. do you also get pissy when the flight attendants instructs everyone to close the windows? >
  
  I've never seen this before. Why would they make everyone close the window?
  Edit: Can some kind soul explain why I'm getting downvoted? >
  
  i had it happen a couple times when there was a snow storm >
  
  I paid extra for that window seat fuck the row they got another window on the other side. >
  
  If you want the window open, buy a window seat. >
  
  Hoo boy, OP's gonna get roasted on this one.
  Anybody want some popcorn? >
  
  My take is that you don’t fly often at all >
  
  Disagree. There’s enough light on a plane. >
  
  Nah, I’m trying to sleep. Opening the window also heats up the cabin. If you want the window open then you should have ~~payed~~ paid for the window seat. It is not my job to cater to you. >
  
  Paid* >
  
  Order a window seat, sit there with your "it's everybody's window, man" agenda. 
  The two people next to you ask: "could you please close the window?".
  You explain your window concept to them and they sigh..
  Now who's the psycho? >
  
  No the unwritten law is that the person on the window seat has control over the window >
  
  Disagreed. Hence check on unpopular >
  
  I only upvote if unpopular AND reasonably accurate/true. If you have the window seat, you probably paid for it and you get to control the shade. The freaking shade is there for a reason... people want to sleep sometimes >
  
  Agreed, I won't give an upvote for unpopular opinions if they're presented very poorly...such as this one >
  
  get a window seat? >
  
  When you buy a window seat, you buy it to have control of the window. I specifically buy window seats so I can open them at take off and landing and close them during the flight so I can get some goddamn sleep. >
  
  Solid unpopular opinion. As someone who travels a lot for work, I can’t stand when people leave the window open. When you’re taking off and landing, sure but when you’re above the clouds, how long before the clouds are boring?  What are you even looking at? >
  
  Lol, I’d have said the opposite. Chances are your entire row wants to sleep and would rather the shade closed. >
  
  You need a light? Push the button up there to have one. 
  I'm going to crush some complimentary champagne, shut the window, and take a nap. >
  
  amen. >
  
  People who think the way OP thinks fly once every few years. 
  I fly just about weekly. The only allure it has left is nap time while I travel. >
  
  I’m terrified of heights and would like to take a nap on a longer flight, so no. I’ll open it when I feel like it. >
  
  It’s not your window it’s the window of the person who paid and picked “window seat” they control it they booked enough ahead of time or laid enough that it is their seat if you wanted to control it you should’ve sat in it (crazy right?). Many people sleep on planes and don’t want that light in their face, many people have problems dealing with that bright blasting light if it’s a bright sunny day so they take the window and close it so they aren’t suffering. There’s so many reasons other than “your a psycho” that’s such a stupid generalization that I would expect from someone in middle school trying to sound funny by using extremes.
  Edit: I love looking out the window myself which is why I try to get it but I don’t get mad at the person who is there >
  
  Window shade. Window shade. Please do not open the actual window, especially not at altitude. >
  
  get an eye mask if you don’t want to see outside the plane