u/StepViking

Internal EU flight, about an hour, low-cost airline, €25-ish ticket. Nothing to write home about.

Unfortunately, before we even took off, I heard an argument starting behind me. Apparently, while the cabin crew were doing the usual pre-flight checks (seatbelts, tray tables, etc) one of the flight attendants (male) accidentally bumped into a guy sitting in an aisle seat. Well, that type of the guy that tells you to keep going.

And Mr. Dickhead absolutely lost it. At first I just heard him repeatedly saying, “Don’t hit me.” Fair enough, I thought. Maybe something actually happened. Then he went into a loop:

GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY FACE, SHUT THE FUCK UP, LEAVE ME ALONE.

Over and over, for what felt like a solid minute. Another flight attendant tried to explain that nobody was trying to hit him. He was sitting in an aisle seat, the cabin is cramped as fuck, and the crew were rushing to finish their checks before departure. Apparently he'd just been accidentally bumped while someone was moving past him.

This explanation did not calm His Majesty down.

The first flight attendant was clearly starting to lose patience too, because at some point I heard something along the lines of, “Do you have a problem? Do you want to get off the plane?”

Then I heard, DON’T TOUCH ME. I couldn't see exactly what was happening at that point, so I don't know whether Mr. Dickhead tried to grab the flight attendant or what. But eventually the situation ended with him being moved to another seat somewhere in the middle of the plane, presumably so nobody would accidentally violate the royal personage again.

And that was it.

Bruh. You're on a one-hour Ryanair-tier flight in economy that costs about as much as lunch. You're sitting in an aisle seat in a metal tube where two people can barely pass each other. The crew are trying to get everyone ready for takeoff. Maybe (just maybe) if somebody accidentally bumps into you, you can survive this grave injustice without screaming GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY FACE for a minute straight. Especially when there are kids sitting right fucking there.

I genuinely wish this was ragebait, but unfortunately this literally happened today. I'm still kind of amazed that some people can talk to complete strangers like this over something so minor and apparently see absolutely nothing wrong with it.

P.S. Sorry guys, I can't respond to everyone but I heavily doubt it all happened because he was autistic. Like, he simply kept swearing at the crewman in an annoyingly aggressive tone and honestly at some point it felt like there'll be a fight. I hardly ever meet people behaving like *this* (and I've met all kinds of assholes). To me, at least, it seemed like he wanted to assert his dominance or something. In any case, you can't just expain such awful behavior by saying "I'm autistic".

And yeah, I'm also a bit surprised they allowed him to stay.