'Entitled brat' or a fair request? Plane passenger who wanted to sit next to his girlfriend comes under fire after moaning that a 'boomer' wouldn't give up his window seat
- Australian journalist Daniel Brettig took to Twitter to call out the elderly man
- Couple were going to be apart for while and said man should've swapped seats
- Mr Brettig took to Twitter to ask whether the man should have swapped or not
A passenger has been labelled a 'brat' after he criticised a 'boomer' for refusing to swap seats on a plane.
Australian journalist Daniel Brettig took to Twitter to call out the elderly man, saying he and his girlfriend were going to be apart for two-and-a-half months and wanted to sit together for the flight.
'A boomer refused to swap seats on a flight this morning to let my gf and I sit together on the last day before we're apart for 2.5 months - because they wanted to look out the window,' Mr Brettig wrote on Monday.
Australian journalist Daniel Brettig took to Twitter to call out the elderly man on the plane
He then posted a poll asking for his follower's opinions on whether asking the man to swap seats was a 'reasonable request', or it was 'pushing your luck'.
'I see this has polarised. Having swapped seats happily more than once I was surprised. So I suppose we should poll,' he said.
The results from 373 people showed 64 per cent of people voted that it was a reasonable request.
On the other hand, 36 per cent of people voted that Mr Brettig was pushing his luck for asking the man to swap seats.
The post sparked a debate with people calling Mr Brettig 'entitled' and a 'brat' - saying it was his fault for not pre-booking his seats before the flight.
He took to Twitter to call out the 'boomer' and asked his followers whether or not the man should have swapped seats
'Very strong generational metaphor - are you usually such a brat?' one person asked.
'Did you stomp your feet like the spoiled, entitled brat you come across as?' another asked.
'Your lack of planning is nobody else's problem,' one person wrote.
'Good. Buy your seat, choose your seat. Don't ask for someone else's that they have either earned, chosen or paid for,' another person commented.
'Or another way of putting it, less organised individual thinks that a far more organised individual should value their emotional needs over their own,' another posted.
But others came to the defence of the journalist's request, but said he should have accepted the passenger's refusal.
'There's nothing wrong with you asking, but at the same time, there's nothing wrong with them saying no,' one noted.
'The request is reasonable, but that's not the issue here. Trying to demonise someone for not doing what you want is poor form. People don't tend to respond well to self-entitled complaints,' another said.
Mr Brettig said him and his girlfriend were going to be apart for two-and-a-half months and the elderly man should have offered to swap seats
