Strap in, a bit of a long one. TLDR at the end.
I used to have to fly to Europe from Vancouver quite often for work. One of the benefits of this was that I began to earn status with AC. This is important for later. On one particular trip over I see that AC now offers all 3 Lord of The Rings movies, a series I had never seen (you can lambast me about that later). I did some quick math and realise the length of the series is just under the length of my return flight, so I decided there and then I will forgo any sleep and watch them back to back to back on my way home.
The big day has arrived and because I'm one of the lucky ones I get to board first. At this point I have my route dialled so I am probably 20ish minutes into the first movie by the time the person sitting next to me arrives. Turns out it's a young family. Mum, Dad, a 4ish year old and a <18month old. The Mom and older child are sat next to me and the Dad/infant across the aisle and one row back. From what I could work out from there conversation with the flight attendant is that they thought they'd booked the bulk head, but low and behold they had not.
Flight attendant asks if I'd be willing to move to the same seat a couple rows back and being the stellar human being I am said "or course". I get to my new seat and now I'm sat next to a 16ish YO boy and his mother in the aisle. I say my hellos and go back to my movie.
After maybe 10 minutes or so I get a tap on my shoulder, it's the mother. I pause the movie and remove my headphones. She proceeds to say "I'm sorry to be a pain, but would it be possible for you to watch something less violent? I really don't like having my child exposed to violence..."
I was a little taken aback at first but I put on my best customer service voice and retorted "I'm sorry ma'am but I have really been looking forward to this my whole trip, plus it's not a particularly violent movie, it's more fantasy and such" (I of course don't really know this as I've never seen it before.
Mother - "I am going to have to insist you turn it off immediately"
Me - "As I said, that isn't going to happen. He looks pretty focused on his own screen to be honest"
Kid hasn't blinked nor turned his head at all at this point
Mother - "You leave me no choice, I am going to have to ask someone to remove you from the flight"
Me (now visibly laughing) "let's suppose I do turn it off, what am I allowed to watch?"
Mother (now thinking she's made ground) "well I'm glad you're thinking rationally, you are allowed to watch anything from the family or kids section"
Me - "sweet" I immediately put my headphones back on and hit play again with the plan to ignore her
I can see her scowling and waving frantically at the flight attendant who'd asked me to move. She comes over and the woman is losing her shit demanding I be removed from the plane and that she wants to press charges blah blah blah all the while hasn't mentioned what I've done, just innane threats and wants.
FA is now staring at me furiously assuming I've done something awful. I just smile at her and briefly explained "she's mad at me because I am watching Lord of the Rings..."
Now FA is very confused and looks back to the woman and asks if it's true, to which she triumphantly declares "Yes! And I can't believe you allow such horror porn (I'll never forget that line" on an airplane, I should sue Air Canada!"
The angel of a flight attendant then came up with one of the all time comebacks "Ma'am, there have been, and still currently are many many reasons to sue Air Canada, but I can assure you, this isn;t one of them" which made me burst out laughing along with the few people sat around us who were listening in.
FA made an extra effort to bring me extra bottles of wine throughout the flight but unfortunately I cracked the seal early, now everytime I had to get up to pee the mother would quickly pretend to be asleep to which I of course decided to just start climbing over her.
Very odd experience.
TLDR - Was watching LoTR on a plane, lady next to me thought it was too violent for her precious sons eyes, got mad that I wouldn't turn it off, got even more mad when the flight crew wouldn't toss me off the plane.
Submitted June 13, 2023 at 12:00AM by cdcm87 https://ift.tt/BLNO9ea
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