I’ll never forget the day a shady couple tricked me out of my first-class seat on a plane. They thought they were not going to get caught, but I had a plan to teach them a lesson they would never forget.
The couple asked me to switch places with them because they said they had booked the wrong seat by mistake and wanted to sit together. I was shocked by how rude and angry they were, but I kept my cool and gave them my boarding pass.
As I walked to my new spot, I couldn’t help but feel angry and upset. I felt bad, but I didn’t let it get the best of me. I chose to teach them a lesson instead of letting things go to their heads.
I tell the flight attendant what I need to do and ask to talk to the head purser. I told her what was going on, and she listened carefully. After that, she gave me an option: I could either go back to my original spot or get a lot of airline miles as payment.
I picked the miles because I knew they were worth a lot more than the difference in price between VIP and economy. The cashier smiled and wrote something down on her tablet. “And as a token of goodwill, we’ve upgraded your next flight to first class.”
I was happy with how things turned out, but I knew the couple didn’t know what was going to happen. As the flight went on, I couldn’t help but feel good about knowing that they would soon have to deal with the results of their deeds.
When the chief purser and another flight attendant came up to the couple, they looked very serious. “Something is wrong with your seats,” the purser said to start. “We’ve been informed that you manipulated another passenger into switching seats with you, which is a violation of our airline’s policy.”
The couple’s faces went pale, and they spoke slowly as they tried to defend themselves. It was too late, though. They knew they would be punished by being put on the airline’s “no-fly” list while a review took place, as the purser had already made it clear.
I couldn’t help but smile as airport security led the couple off the plane. They had lost more than just a seat; they had lost their honour, and they would have to deal with the effects of that for a long time.
Being in the airport made me think that sometimes getting even isn’t about making a big deal out of it; it’s about waiting for people who think they’ve won to realise how badly they’ve lost.
