@ellerbracke
Hi
I hear ya. Crying babies I’ll always forgive. Kicking the back of my seat constantly when the parent is right there is unforgivable.
Sitting next to obese or otherwise annoying people is something we really can’t do anything about unless there happens to be an empty seat. It’s a crap shoot when flying alone and so much better when family is along.
Several years ago coming back from New York with my daughter, son in law and 2 grandkids ((teens), my granddaughter and I were not allowed on the flight because we already boarded. My son in law, who didn’t realize we were not following them in, finally came back out when he saw a woman and a young girl sitting in our seats. We were delayed 20 minutes until the other woman, obviously the grandmother and her granddaughter , came walking off the plane. We found out she was on the wrong flight but had the same seat numbers.
How did she get on in the first place?

Often wish I could teleport myself to my destination. But then I have had the greatest people to sit next to. When smoking was allowed on flights, a women deliberately would not put out her cigarette as we were prepared to buckle up and take off. She smoked it down to the end and then put it out. They couldn’t do anything back then. So we were delayed. I was coming back from Vegas and I kept hoping she had “crapped out” at the dice table lol. They shouldn’t allow drunks on the flights. Don’t know if that has changed.

FL Mary