Economy airtravelduring the holidays can come with its challenges. Delays, cancellations, packed airports, and rude passengers are all part of the territory. So, if you can strike it lucky with your seat booking, it goes a long way to having a better journey.

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Economy class air travel isn’t great to start with, but this woman’s long flight home started off extra uncomfortable

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Thrilled to book an aisle seat, the woman was looking forward to the extra legroom, but when she got to it, she found another passenger and her dog sitting in it

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When she told the passenger she was sitting in her seat, the woman told her the seating had been rearranged and that the woman could sit in her original seat

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After sitting in that seat for a while, the woman decided to assert herself and returned to the passenger and her dog to tell her she wanted her assigned seat back

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The seating drama continued until a flight attendant got involved and told everyone to go back to their assigned seats, giving the woman the seat, and space, she paid for

When she got to her seat, she was met with a woman and her dog sitting in it. After politely explaining to the woman that she was in her seat, the woman informed her that the seating had been rearranged and that she could go and sit in her original seat.

After sitting in that seat for a while, OP decided to confront theentitledwoman and insist on having her assignedseatback. Rolling her eyes, the woman gave the dog to her husband and vacated the seat, but not without much grumbling. Then the woman’s husband suggested OP take the empty row behind them.

Not wanting to split up the family, OP agreed. Everything was going smoothly until a flight attendant told her the row she was in was out of service. At this point, the flight attendant told everyone to go back to their assigned seats, and that’s when OP realized the whole family,dogand kid in car seat included, had never been in their assigned seats in the first place.

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Entitled people can be the worst. Not only do they think everyone owes them something, but they often also possess a complete lack of self-awareness. But what makes them act this way? And can they ever overcome it? We went looking for answers.

According to theBetterHelpwebsite, there are a number of possible reasons why a person may develop a heightened sense of entitlement.

Some people think that when a child is given everything they ask for without earning those things, it creates an expectation of the same treatment when they reach adulthood.

In other instances, after experiencing unfairness or neglect, some people develop an entitled attitude in an attempt to overcompensate for past wrongs. Another cause may be that the person is suffering from some type of personality disorder.

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Bored Pandareached out to psychologist Dr. Debroah Hecker to get her expert insights on the situation.

When we asked her what she thought makes a person entitled she had this to say, “There are several theories about why someone develops a sense of entitlement. Someone who believes that good parenting meansalwaysgiving their child what they want will be inadvertently contributing to their child expecting others to cave into their demands.”

Hecker goes on, “For some, a sense of entitlement may be the result of a personality disorder, which can contribute to a skewed, or inflated value of themselves in relation to other’s worth.  In other cases, people will overcompensate for what they believe are past wrongs: a child who is deprived of love may grow up feeling entitled to demand it from others.”

We asked Dr. Hecker for one piece of advice she’d offer someone struggling with a sense of entitlement, she advised, “It can be challenging trying to navigate a relationship with someone who has a sense of entitlement, especially because they oftenlack empathy.  I would suggest to them thatthey treat others as they would like to be treated.”

Hecker concludes, “It is important not to cater to the whims of entitled people and to set clear boundaries with them. They will respect you for it.”

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