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She was forced to “stand up” for herself.
A California traveler has received a flurry of sympathy online after chastising an aisle seat occupant for refusing to get up so she could use the bathroom.
“You just gotta get up,” the user — who goes by @deetsontheeats — declared in the impromptu airline etiquette PSA taking off online.
The TikTokker recounted how she reportedly asked said woman to “get out” so could go to the lavatory — a request she acknowledged was inconvenient –but the flyer initially refused to budge.
“She goes, ‘Well, can you just scoot past me?’” recalled the San Diego resident, who balked over the passenger’s audacity.
“What, in the two inches between your leg and the seat in front of you, no I can’t scoot by you,” exclaimed the influencer. “Unfortunately, I’m bigger than two inches.”
The stand-up gal added, “I’m not going to climb over your lap, I’m a grown woman.”
Said that eventually the stubborn flyer begrudgingly made way for her seatmate, claiming, “She got up and she was so annoyed.”
Ultimately, the TikTokker claimed that the aisle seat occupant should always get up unless they are disabled or sick — which she claimed was not the “situation” with her obstructive seatmate.
“I know it’s annoying [to get up] but unless you physically can’t — which if that’s the case I totally understand — but if you physically can, you just need to get up and go and let the person out,” she declared.
The passenger also warned flyers to “watch those elbows” when sitting in the center. “We all agree that the middle seat gets both armrests, but just the armrest, not into my seat,” the content creator cautioned.
TikTok commenters overwhelmingly agreed that getting up for others was part and parcel of sitting in the aisle.
“As an aisle seat-only person, getting up as often as anyone wants to for any reason comes with the territory,” said one. “You can’t hold the row captive.”
Another wrote, “If a person takes the aisle seat, they’re signing up for moving to let people out of the row!!”
“If you don’t want to get up, pay extra so you can pick a window seat,” said a third.
One commenter recalled, “‘[I] had someone do this once. I literally sat in their lap to swing my legs through. They were not happy.”
The only exception to the rule would be if the seatbelt sign was on, passengers agreed. “Only time I’ve told someone to scoot/climb over me as an aisle seat person was when they HAD to pee during insane turbulence,” said one. “I was like I am not unbuckling my seatbelt.”
In general, etiquette experts agree that it’s common courtesy for the aisle seater to stand so their neighbors can heed nature’s call. However, this awkward process generally goes smoother if the middle and window seat occupants ask politely, they say.
“Lean over, smile, get eye contact if possible, and ask, ‘Could you please excuse me?’” advised Pamela Eyring, president of The Protocol School of Washington with locations in Washington, D.C., and Columbia, South Carolina. “Then unbuckle, then begin to stand as a non-verbal motion.”
She added, “By beginning to stand, it physically alerts the person in the aisle (and middle) that you need to depart the row. When you return, always say ‘thank you’ and smile.”
