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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]***What do you do in this scenario?

You are in the aisle seat in row 8. You stood up  in the aisle and are patiently waiting with your small carry on (which you kept under your seat).

Everyone in front starts exiting and you move forward — and then the woman in the aisle seat ahead of you jumps up and steps out into the aisle.

Naturally, you pause.

But then she says, “My carryon is in the overhead a few rows back.”

Her expectation was that everyone already standing in the aisle for 3+ rows would sit down so she could walk back and grab it.

I said, “Sorry, I think you’re going to need to wait until there’s space for you to walk back and grab it.”

She was clearly upset.

I walked by to exit as did everyone behind me.

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I’d let her squish back past me to get her bag. What she does with other strangers is not my concern. I’ve had similar scenarios multiple times on international flights and people are usually nice and either pass the bag or just let the person squish themselves to where the bag is and then they just follow the de boarding line from there. It’s not that complicated.[/quote]

There wasn’t any room to squish past me. There was a big person literally spooning me from behind. And the person seated next to me had already stood up (essentially in my aisle seat) and had their carryon in my seat. I was in the aisle with my carry on in front of me.

Had I asked everyone to back up, return to their seats,etc so I could move back into my seat I don’t think anyone would have listened.

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“You’re welcome to get past me if you can, but it feels pretty tight.” This is not hard. Not sure what the issue was with you.[/quote]

I led with “sorry but I think you’ll need to wait until you can get past” precisely because there wasn’t any room for her to pass. Same difference. I literally couldn’t move since someone had already stood up and taken my seat so there wasn’t any way for her to go around me. (I’m average size; she was not small.)[/quote]

No, it’s not the “same difference,” since you can only speak for yourself. Your first response makes it sound like you were speaking for the whole line behind you. “Sorry.”[/quote]

Typically, this is what happens:

1. The aisle is filled with people grabbing luggage and standing still. It’s one person from the row standing in the aisle—sometimes 2.

2. Then some people slide over to the aisle to take the space left by the person/people who moved into the aisle. They’re leaning out trying to grab carryons.

3. When someone’s bag is a row of two behind, it’s possible to look at the person standing in the aisle and ask them to pass the hello kitty bag in row 13 up.

4. When the person says it’s a few rows back and can’t easily say where it is, then I think they need to wait. [/quote]

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