I just hold the seat back and watch them try a few times.
So far, not one person has turned around to see what the fuck I'm doing.
I suspect it's because everyone is really aware that there's no fucking room to recline your seat unless the person behind had no legs.
Being a long legged type I suffer pain for any flight longer than about 2 hours, there just isn't enough legroom and I'm fucked if someone is going to make it worse.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:39, 1 reply)

Last time someone tried it on me
was on a flight from Basel to Heathrow. Swiss weren't over generous with their legroom to start with, and as I'm 6'4" I was pretty tightly wedged. The woman in front tried to recline and couldn't because my legs were in the way. I wasn't being particularly obstructive, just unable to move to give the room she wanted.

She must have known that it was a human in the way, so she pressed the release and hurled herself back into the seat, moving it back a few inches. Instantly I screamed AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH. MY KNEES!!!! at the top of my voice. Nobody does this on a plane. Ever.

After she recovered, seat once again fully forward, I don't think she dared breathe for the rest of the trip. I didn't care.
(ubergeekian, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 22:58, closed)

Heh,
thing is I wouldn't dream of putting my seat back because it's horrible for the person behind and rather foolishly I assume that other people are similarly considerate. They are not, most people are trapped in a tiny bubble of their own concerns barely able to recognise that there are others with needs around them too.

I am not a sociopath yet, but it's not because people have convinced me not to be.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 6 Mar 2012, 1:05, closed)