Dennis Prager Show - What Happened to Airplane Manners?
Aired: 2026-04-13
Duration: 04:11


=== Refusing to Pay for Extra Seats (04:10) ===

[00:00:01]  So given the openness of subject in the final week of the year, there was an article in the Daily Mail that I think is representative of the breakdown in clear moral thinking.
[00:00:18]  I'm fat and refuse to give a toddler the extra seat I paid for on a flight.
[00:00:23]  That's the title.
[00:00:25]  His mom lost it at me and angry passengers took her side.
[00:00:31]  An obese woman has come under fire after refusing to give up her second airplane seat for a fussy toddler, but she believes she's done nothing wrong.
[00:00:43]  The thirty-four-year-old woman originally booked two seats on her cross-country flight because of previous experiences being unable to comfortably fit into one seat.
[00:00:55]  She was excited to visit her family for Christmas, but everything went downhill when a young mother demanded she Squeeze into one seat, unquote, so that her son could sit in the other.
[00:01:09]  Now, Mr. Producer, is there a shred of doubt in your mind that she is right?
[00:01:17]  You're talking about the obese woman?
[00:01:19]  The obese woman.
[00:01:20]  No, there's not.
[00:01:22]  It's 100% clear.
[00:01:27]  That's why I chose this story.
[00:01:29]  This is a microcosm of the perverse thinking that the left world has put in people.
[00:01:36]  I am obese, she admitted on Reddit.
[00:01:38]  I'm actively working toward losing weight and I've made progress, but I booked an extra seat because I'm fat.
[00:01:46]  She revealed that she insisted on keeping her second seat because she paid for it.
[00:01:51]  But it ruined the rest of her journey.
[00:01:55]  The mother made a big fuss over it, and she told the flight attendant I was stealing the seat from her son.
[00:02:02]  It's hard to steal something you paid for.
[00:02:05]  Thank you.
[00:02:06]  Thank you.
[00:02:07]  It is hard to steal something.
[00:02:09]  You've paid for.
[00:02:11]  That is right.
[00:02:14]  Then I showed her my boarding passes, proving that I paid for the extra seat.
[00:02:19]  The flight attendant asked me if I could try to squeeze in.
[00:02:27]  That is depressing.
[00:02:28]  This story is depressing.
[00:02:31]  But I said, no, I wanted the extra seat I paid for.
[00:02:34]  This poor woman is thinking is the world crazy?
[00:02:39]  Isn't that the point of my buying an extra seat?
[00:02:41]  It's my seat.
[00:02:42]  It's my seat.
[00:02:50]  Because the child was only eighteen months old, he didn't need his own seat and could have sat on his mother's lap for the duration of the flight, but the mother was hoping for some respite from a squirmy toddler.
[00:03:04]  The passenger said, I got dirty looks and passive-aggressive remarks from her for the entire flight, and I do feel a little bad because the boy looked hard to control.
[00:03:16]  But am I in the wrong?
[00:03:19]  Are you in the wrong?
[00:03:21]  Oh my god.
[00:03:26]  She should have said, okay, give me the money that I paid for for that seat.
[00:03:34]  Many slammed the mother and the flight attendant for their horrific behavior.
[00:03:38]  Well, that's good.
[00:03:41]  The mum is an a-hole for not buying a seat for her son and assuming someone else would give up a seat they had paid for.
[00:03:48]  One passenger said.
[00:03:50]  Odds are.
[00:03:51]  She was hoping there'd be extra seats on the flight so she didn't have to pay and used the lap thing as a loophole.
[00:04:00]  What's even the point of the extra seat if the flight attendant are going to let entitled people bully others into giving it up?
[00:04:08]  The flight attendant is the one that bothers me the most.