14 Million People on Facebook Have Already Shared in This Woman’s Nightmare Flight (It’s Not Pretty)

You just never know what might happen on a plane.

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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.

You sit down in your seat and you have no idea what will happen next.

It could be that the flight will be smooth, the seat next to you will be empty and the water will taste like water.

Or it could be that someone will do their very best to disturb you.

Not because they don’t like you, but just because they’re so entirely self-absorbed that they just don’t care about you at all.

Jasmine Mays experienced something a little difficult on a recent flight.

She filmed a little of the action, offering her own pained facial expressions as a true measure of her discomfort.

Here she was, apparently minding her own business. And there was the woman behind her propping her bare feet almost under Mays’ nose.

14 million people on Facebook have already shared her pain in the last week.

Many want to know what, if anything, Mays did about it.

It appears she just sat and suffered. Which, I suspect, is something that many would have done.

Turning around and asking the person — even politely — to please remove their feet might bring with it troubling consequences.

You don’t know if that person might be spoiling for a fight. You don’t know if they’ll react in some aggressive manner that will escalate the whole thing.

Worse, what if a harassed, unhappy Flight Attendant comes along and decides that you’re equally disrupting the flight?

Would you be surprised if there was an overreaction and the pilot chose to divert the plane to get both of you off?

That’s the problem with modern flying.

The sheer cramped nature of the experience in coach means that the tension is always high and the potential for unpleasantness is as ever-present as a monster in a horror movie.

And airline employees are often a little too much like law enforcement officers.

So we stay quiet. Or as quiet as we can.

Hey, at least it wasn’t a child kicking her seat for a few hours from behind. 

That happened to me once and when I turned around the kid’s mom said: “He’s a real cutie, isn’t he?”

Actually, no.