AITA for asking the person behind me to stop kicking my seat?
A couple of weeks ago i was taking a four hour flight to meet my friend. I have always hated flying since it causes me so much stress and anxiety, and what happened made me feel even more worse. From the second I sat down in my seat (way before the plane started moving), I could feel someone kicking my seat. I looked back and noticed it was a child. Two hours into the flight i turned around to ask them to stop kicking. I noticed that the mother was asleep so I addressed the child but when she woke up I diverted my attention to the mother and asked her then gave her a smile. She looked at me in a rather rude way. I turned around and went on with my life. Three hours into it, i was getting fed up. I gathered the courage to turn around again and told the lady, kindly, if she could ask her child to stop kicking my seat. She looked at me and screams “maybe next time you should fly privately”. She said that i’m an adult and her kid is just a child. I told her that, regardless, you’re in a public place and maybe you should respect the public. She exploded insisting again that im an adult and that her kid is a child and that i should deal with that. She was acting very rudely, screaming and yelling at me as if its my fault. When i realized this isn’t getting anywhere i turned around and she sarcasticllay told me to have a nice flight. I’m a very non confrontational person by nature, so i spent the rest of flight wondering if i did something wrong. When i arrived to my destination and told my friend, he agreed that what happened was absurd and suggested i speak to the flight attendant next time instead of talking to the person. I understand she is just a child but it is not my problem. It is the parents responsibility to teach their kid respect for others. If it was a toddler or a baby i would understand, but she is at an age where she can be taught basic manners towards other people. Am i in the wrong here?
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