He Sat Next To A Content Creator On A Flight, And She Wouldn’t Stop Recording Him, Even While He Slept
For his entire life, this 21-year-old man has been traveling on planes and has luckily never run into problems with annoying passengers.
Unfortunately, that changed not too long ago. He recently took a flight that took off from the UK, and he had to get this flight at the last minute because of a family emergency.
When he was booking his flight, there weren’t any more aisle seats open. However, he saw that there was a row with three seats, and this row had more legroom, so he booked the window seat in this row.
On the day of his flight, a man about his age, possibly a little older, was sitting in the seat next to him while a 22-year-old woman was in the aisle seat.
The woman was incredibly chatty, but the man seated next to him wasn’t.
Because of the family emergency that caused him to book this flight in the first place, he was feeling depressed and anxious, so he wasn’t really in the mood to talk to anyone. He assumed that this may have made him seem like he was a jerk since he wasn’t that talkative.
Eventually, the woman introduced herself, and he and the man next to him quickly did as well.
After this, he was still understandably stressed, so he put his headphones in and closed his eyes to try to get some rest before takeoff.
With his eyes still closed, he could hear the man and woman continuing to talk, and eventually, he felt some movement.
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He realized that the man and woman had switched seats. Now, the man was in the aisle seat, and the woman was in the middle seat. She was now seated right next to him.
“Sometime later, I heard her talking. She was making a video. I opened my eyes, and she had the camera on me at that moment,” he said.
“It was brief, so I let it slide, gestured a little acknowledgment, not saying anything because, at that time, I had no idea how annoying it was about to get.”
A bit later, the woman turned off her camera, and she began asking him tons of things that he didn’t feel up for answering at that point.
He knew that she was excited and talkative, so he figured that he probably just wasn’t interested in having a lot of conversation at the time because of the situation going on with his family.
The woman was flying for a fun trip, and he was clearly flying for a drastically different reason.
During the conversation, he indulged the woman a bit and gave her short answers to several of the questions she asked him, but later, he suggested that she should talk with the man in the aisle, explaining that he wanted to go to sleep.
In response, she said that she didn’t want to talk to the other man. She stated that she wanted to keep talking to him specifically.
Since it was clear that she didn’t understand that he wanted to be left alone, he told her firmly that he didn’t want to keep talking to her.
At first, he thought his firm words had done the trick because she was finally quiet and no longer pestering him.
He still had his closed, but when he opened them for a moment, he discovered that the only reason the woman was quiet was because she was filming him.
“I raised a brow, and she giggled. I told her I needed her to stop. She laughed and told me I had said I didn’t want to talk, but I didn’t say I didn’t want to be filmed. I replied to that with, ‘Now you know.’ She brushed this off, switched to filming herself, and said to the camera, ‘He is so cranky,'” he explained.
Thankfully, the woman didn’t continue to film him, and she got comfortable and started watching something on her iPad.
In the meantime, he drifted off to sleep.
Later, he woke up to the flight attendant asking them if they wanted anything to drink, and he accepted the offer and put in his drink request.
He noticed that the woman wasn’t in her seat, so he assumed he must have gone to the bathroom.
While she was away, the man in his row spoke to him in their native language, informing him that when he was asleep, he saw that the woman had been filming him and doing goofy things such as faking like she was touching his face, waving her hand over his closed eyes, putting her hand close to his to compare how big his hand was in comparison, and doing the same thing with putting her foot close to his.
Plus, she took photos, and the man couldn’t tell him with confidence if he was in these photos or not.
The man explained that since he also had fallen asleep for a while, it was possible that she continued her antics while the two of them were sleeping and requested that he not tell the woman about what he told him because he didn’t want to be involved in the situation.
When the woman returned from the bathroom, he asked her right away about what she’d been doing while he was sleeping.
“She turned to the other guy angrily. Meanwhile, he looked uncomfortable (English was his second language). Before she could go off on him, I stopped her. I requested she delete whatever footage she took of me. She doesn’t have my consent. She stated she doesn’t need it. I gave her an ‘Are you serious?’ look, and she switched to pleading,” he shared.
He was so sick of dealing with this woman that he told her that if she didn’t stop filming him, he would be making a complaint to the airline staff.
She took his warning seriously and didn’t film him anymore after that.
Halfway through the flight, the woman slept, and she repeatedly leaned her head against him. No matter how many times he moved her away, she kept moving her head back onto him in annoyance.
It was obvious to him that this woman was used to getting her way all the time. To keep her away from him, he put a pillow in between their seats, and then he attempted to sleep.
As the plane was about to land, she asked him if he could use her camera to film outside the window so she could have footage of the landing.
In addition, she requested that he provide some voiceover commentary while filming, and he refused to do any of this.
After he denied her request, she started leaning over him so that she could film instead.
This was happening while the flight attendant was walking past them, and he made eye contact with her to signal that he was irritated with the woman invading his space.
The flight attendant told the woman to stop, and she listened, moving away from him so that she could sit normally in her seat. For a bit, the woman was silent, and he started feeling guilty that she wasn’t able to get the footage she wanted for the vlog she was trying to make.
He asked her if she wanted to switch seats with him so that she could film the window, and she rejected this idea, claiming that the moment she wanted to film had already passed. He didn’t agree with this, but she then told him that he was the reason her vlog was ruined.
She continued, explaining that this was her first time traveling to this country, and he was starting her time here off on the wrong foot and giving her a negative view of what men from this country are like.
According to her, he was “being a bad ‘ambassador for the brand.'”
He chuckled at this, and she questioned how he was going to rectify the situation. In his view, he didn’t have any obligation to do anything, and he told her this, adding that he’d be willing to help her get her luggage down from the overhead compartment.
She wasn’t satisfied with this, so he stopped talking to her. A few minutes later, he could hear the woman talking to the other man, and she asked the man if all the men in this country were rude like him.
The man was obviously uncomfortable and had no idea how to react. He ended up assuring her that she had nothing to be concerned about and that people in this country were polite.
“This made me remark to him in our language, ‘You should tell her to work on her manners,'” he continued.
She whipped around to look at him and asked what he told the man. Instead of telling her the truth, he told her that he’d said to the man that if he felt up to it, he could help her with getting her luggage from the overhead compartment.
Before this ordeal, he’d never been around a content creator in his everyday life. Even though he knew he was not happy due to the family emergency going on, he wondered if he was in the wrong for how he acted toward this woman.
On the other hand, he thought she was violating his boundaries by filming him without his permission.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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