Public transport can be convenient, fast and calm but it can also be a real headache. Because as you may know, everything depends on the people who are on this journey together with you.
Now, let’s talk a little bit about window seats. There are people who prefer it, especially on planes, and are happy when they get it without paying additional fee. There are also others who don’t care and others who pay additional money to get this seat as it may help them with flying anxiety, they just enjoy watching the view from above or it just makes the trip more comfortable.
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There is a golden rule that whoever has a window seat is in control of the window
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Woman shares that she has flying anxiety and looking out the window is the only thing that helps her not to freak out
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For that reason she paid extra money to get a window seat
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However, in the middle of the flight, the lady who was sitting next to her reached over to shut it
So to begin with, the author shares that she has flying anxiety. And the thing that helps her to calm down is looking through the window while flying. For this reason, she had purchased a window seat ticket. However, it turns out that not everybody knows the unwritten rule that whoever has a window seat is in control of the window.
The passenger who was sitting next to the OP reached over her, slammed it and bluntly said that it hurts her eyesight. Well, this was rude, but okay. However, she also managed to throw away one of the woman’s cups, which was in her seat with a full soda can inside. So 30 minutes later, OP started getting nervous and decided that she had paid for this window, meaning she could do whatever she wanted with it.
The community members shamed this entitled passenger’s behavior and shared their personal experiences in similar situations. One woman wrote that she has encountered similar rude behaviors from older women who feel like they are higher up or from men who expect that everybody will listen to them. Another added that people like this are generally narcissists and don’t care about others around them.
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Moreover, long lines, body scans, and X-ray scanners at airport security checkpoints can also make some people feel anxious. So, despite flying being the safest way to travel, according toStratos, between 33% and 40% of all people experience some form of anxiety when it comes to flying. Also, between 2.5% and 5% of the population have crippling anxiety, a genuine fear of flying that is classified as a clinical phobia.
However, given that so many people find flying to be considerably more stressful than, let’s say, driving, it can be difficult to believe that it is always the safest mode of transportation. Between 2012 and 2016, there was only a 1 in 3.37 billion chance of dying in a commercial airline plane crash, and commercial plane incidents cause death only once in 20 million flights.
The National Safety Council (NSC)estimates that the likelihood of dying in an automobile accident is 1 in 114 for drivers and 1 in 654 for passengers. And the odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 9821, though this accounts for both general aviation, which includes small planes, and commercial aviation.
Community members shamed the lady who was sitting next to the author and assured her that whoever sits in the window seat gets full control of it
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