opusman
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On a recent BA flight from LGW-PMI. I was in 2C in BA's "business class" (lol). Chap in front in 1C was behaving quite oddly pretty much from takeoff. Kept sort of bouncing up and down in his seat every few minutes. I assumed he had some sort of condition and thought no more about it.
After take-off chummy decided having row 1 wasn't enough and he needed to recline to be truly comfortable on the long 2 hour flight. Now I have very long thigh bones, my knees touch the back of the seat in front on BA even when not reclined. I tried to adjust my position as best I could and kept reading my book. 1C keeps on with his regular bouncing thing every few minutes.
Towards the end of the flight my partner had to go to the loo, so I got up to let her out. When sitting back down my knees dug right into the back of the seat. Well this triggered the biggest jump yet from 1C. It was kind of like he'd sat down on a nail. He bounced up a good 6 inches off the seat and did a kind of half turn to the left, before settling back down again.
I was intrigued. Was it not some sort of involuntary spasm after all, but in fact a weird passive-agressive response to the indignity of having someones knees nudge the back of his seat? I decided to test the theory, and indeed discovered I could get him to bounce on demand. I have to say the last 30 minutes or so of the flight were a lot more entertaining, as I had chummy bouncing and spinning every 30 seconds or so at times. Luckily being English he was unable to bring himself to actually say anything to me, so his pass-ag bouncing was as far as it went until I finally got bored and decided to let him enjoy the landing in relative peace.
Really could not understand his issue. Does he not realise how much space there is between the rows? Does he really think he's reclining his seat into an empty void behind him? Very very odd.
After take-off chummy decided having row 1 wasn't enough and he needed to recline to be truly comfortable on the long 2 hour flight. Now I have very long thigh bones, my knees touch the back of the seat in front on BA even when not reclined. I tried to adjust my position as best I could and kept reading my book. 1C keeps on with his regular bouncing thing every few minutes.
Towards the end of the flight my partner had to go to the loo, so I got up to let her out. When sitting back down my knees dug right into the back of the seat. Well this triggered the biggest jump yet from 1C. It was kind of like he'd sat down on a nail. He bounced up a good 6 inches off the seat and did a kind of half turn to the left, before settling back down again.
I was intrigued. Was it not some sort of involuntary spasm after all, but in fact a weird passive-agressive response to the indignity of having someones knees nudge the back of his seat? I decided to test the theory, and indeed discovered I could get him to bounce on demand. I have to say the last 30 minutes or so of the flight were a lot more entertaining, as I had chummy bouncing and spinning every 30 seconds or so at times. Luckily being English he was unable to bring himself to actually say anything to me, so his pass-ag bouncing was as far as it went until I finally got bored and decided to let him enjoy the landing in relative peace.
Really could not understand his issue. Does he not realise how much space there is between the rows? Does he really think he's reclining his seat into an empty void behind him? Very very odd.
