{"id":1353,"date":"2025-08-18T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:55:45","slug":"full-story-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Full story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I settled into my seat, the woman approached with her toddler and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;need two seats, do you? He\u2019s just a child. He can sit there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I calmly replied, \u201cI actually do. I paid for both, and I need the space to travel comfortably.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She scoffed loud enough for the whole row to hear. \u201cSome people are just selfish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A flight attendant came over, and before she could even speak, I handed her my boarding pass showing both seat numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attendant nodded. \u201cMa\u2019am, this passenger paid for both seats. You\u2019ll need to find your assigned one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman huffed all the way back down the aisle, muttering under her breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten minutes later, she was still glaring at me while wrestling her screaming toddler on her lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I leaned back, pulled out my snacks, and enjoyed the flight in peace \u2014 knowing I had every right to the comfort I had paid for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I settled into my seat, the woman approached with her toddler and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t&nbsp;really&nbsp;need two seats, do you? He\u2019s just a child. He can sit&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}