I was once on a domestic flight in Italy, flying from Turin to Naples with Alitalia.

It was quite an empty flight, probably only about 70 passengers in total on a plane which had 250+ seats.

I was booked in a middle seat but seeing as the flight was only about an hour long I was fine with that.

I had the whole row to myself until a man came and occupied the aisle seat on my left. The window seat on my right remained empty as did most of the rows around us.

So just as we're about to leave the gate he looks at me and asks me if I could move up to the window seat. I would not have had any issue with this however the reason he gave me for wanting to move up was because I was “taking up too much room”.

Now, I perfectly accept that I'm not one of the thinnest people around and I could definitely do with losing some weight however I'm a long way off being such a size as to make somebody else's journey uncomfortable because I'm “taking up too much room”. I found it extremely rude and actually quite offensive, especially as quite a few rows around us were completely empty and he could have moved to any one of them quite easily.

I moved without complaint even though I was quite angry.

So later on, we happened to be flying over some snowy mountains (could have been the Dolomites but I'm not sure) and I happened to glance over at the guy and saw him open the camera app on his phone, clearly about to take some pictures of the view from the window (as it was quite a spectacular view) and so just as he leans over to take pictures, I shut the window blind…

He grumbled something under his breath, got up and moved somewhere else and I didn't see him for the rest of the flight.

I was extremely pleased with myself and for me is a perfect example of a passive aggressive action against a rude person.