Like window-seat lovers and aisle-seat devotees, travelers are split into two philosophical seat-recline camps -- recliners who believe they are entitled to a little more comfort (and perhaps sleep) versus upright travelers who prefer to use their tray tables for reading or working. Battles over cabin space can get nasty, from annoying kicking of the reclined seat to heated arguments. Many tall travelers admit to trying to send a message through a seatback by repeatedly bumping and kneeing the reclining passenger in front, or holding a newspaper up high so it brushes the head of the recliner.I’m one of the tall uprights who knee the reclining passenger in front of me. (Sssh, don’t tell anyone…) Having long legs it doesn’t matter if I recline or sit upright; I still think airplane seats are pretty uncomfortable. That is if I don’t go in business class, which happens once a year or so… So when the person in front of me reclines I feel completely trapped. To start with I can’t stretch out my legs and then to suddenly have someone more or less lying in my lap when I’m trying to read the newspaper or a book, I will go totally nuts. Still trying to behave I start with accidentally bumping my knee in the back of the seat and if that doesn’t help I get into proper kneeing. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes I get looks that could kill, but my looks are lethal too. Nobody messes with this upright aisle-seat woman...
December 04, 2006
Recliners or uprights
Which one are you? From Wall Street Journal:
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