Gavra. You’re assuming that we had that kind of cash to offer someone just to switch seats. Actually, we did not even ask in a way that implied I was uncomfortable with sitting next to him. We were actually travelling with our daughter who was then an infant and had booked the bassinet seat. The bassinet went over the two end seats- mine and the secular guy’s. We offered him to switch with my husband so that my husband and I would have the bassinet in front of us and it wouldn’t block him. Then my husband would take my seat and I would sit in the aisle. He refused because we were obviously chareidi and then spent the whole flight purposely making me uncomfortable.
Would you tell someone you are ‘fine’ sitting with an open bassinet in front of your legs, giving yourself less legroom, just to spite an obviously chareidi couple, when they offered to switch places with you? Who is causing the issue here, I wonder?