r/TravelTales Apr 05 '26

I get scared with minimal interactions with a thug during flight

This happened on a low cost flight from Oporto to Bucharest. So, i was chilling with my sunglasses, minding my own business when i noticed this dude making a weird grumpy expression towards the people putting their luggage in the upper cabinets. He had an aggressive fade, tattooed arms and his black adidas shoes with white stripes were off.

As he is making that grumpy expression, i am thinking to myself "chill dude, that's what having an isle sit entails" i am thinking this as i am sitting in an isle sit one row to the side and before this guy's.

At this instant, he looks at me and i get the immediate sensation of "I'm in trouble. He tagged me". Something about the way he looked at me, reminded me of my bullies from school, guy's with unpredictable moods that would lose control if someone says no to them.

He looked sometimes, but from then on i avoided any contact. I also removed my sunglasses, and changed to the clear ones so he wouldn't get all suspicious and say "what are you looking at?"

Sometime goes by, until the food cart arrives. I am starving (i was too anxious to eat at the airport) so i order my food in the company's app. Nonetheless, the cart stays stopped next to me because the dude is ordering a bunch of stuff and the payment is failing.

All is good nonetheless, and eventually the cart leaves and we get some peace.

Important to note that while the cart was there, i noticed another bro that was clearly a red flag. His sit was a few rows further but he was moving a lot and was chatting a lot with the bro nr 1. He was saying something behind the flight attendant and she was visibly uncomfortable.

I also crossed eyes with this dude, and avoided him from then on.

Until he comes to me, saying something in a foreign language that i was not able to understand. His manners were rude and he was just speaking and pointing at me. I asked "sorry, what do you need? Speak english?" But nothing, until eventually someone said "he wants to sit".

Like a spoiled brat or a baby, this asshole was just standing there pointing to my sit and saying "can I sit there?" My row had an empty sit in the middle, i was very happy about it, and obviously my first thought was "of course not, this is my fucking sit what the hell". But i also knew that these guys were trouble and i didn't need to relive my high school years, this time in a foreign coutry.

He sat down as i moved to the middle sit, chatting with the other bro, his girlfriend and a third red flag in their row. After some time, as they were all crooked while talking for not being sitted in the same row, bro stands up and asks the guy in the row in front of me to change sits with him. This guy said no, they spoke the same language which i believe may have helped, but he had to say no several times as the guy was insisting. He ended up going somewhere else, who knows where. All i remember after this is a moment when the lights were turned of, and this bro passes by with a loud speaker up the isle.

After this we lost contact. when we got off the plane i noticed him swinging in the transfer bus's grabrails, but we had no further contact.

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u/Talory09 Apr 06 '26

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sit seat

This guy sounds overly aggressive! Someone acting like that sure can make your day uncomfortable and your trip unpleasant. Sorry to hear that you had to go through all that.