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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Best-Pirate5073 on 2026-01-21 22:05:20+00:00.
This morning I was on a 5 hour nonstop flight to Denver for work and I couldn’t have chosen a worse a worse spot to sit.
So for reference, I was flying with Southwest and ended up boarding in a good enough spot where pretty much the whole back end of the plane was empty. I saw before boarding that the flight was 60% full and the gate agents kept saying to “spread out” and that it wouldn’t be a full flight.
Normally I absolutely WOULD NOT choose the middle seat on a plane but in this case and because of the announcement, I did because I wanted enough room to be comfortable and get some work done on my laptop again not expecting anyone to sit on either side of me.
So they are boarding the last group and the last round of 15 or so people are boarding. To give you an idea, at this point the plane is “full” but there are people scattered everywhere. But there were no full rows left just a bunch of single seats and a few seats that were side by side.
At this point, I have my laptop open, AirPods in and am hammering out some work when in the corner of my eye there is a woman who approaches the row I’m in and asked if she can sit at the window seat, I kindly say that’s fine and she scoots her way in.
A few people behind her keep walking back then a man stops at my row and doesn’t say anything, he just sits down in the aisle seat.
Both the man and woman looked like they had a serious RBF going on but I didn’t think anything of it since the woman was kind when first sitting down.
Anyway…about 10 minutes into the flight I hear the man look my way and say “so are you just going to ignore me the whole time or are you going to say something?” And it took me a minute cause I thought why is this guy talking to me? And then from my other side I hear “don’t f**** talk to me you bastard” then I look over, see they both have their wedding rings on and that’s when it clicks, these people are fighting and I’m in the middle of it.
From that point every few minutes, they’d go back and forth at each other’s throats and at one point it got so bad that people behind me clicked their flight attendant button to complain about the noise they were making.
It turns out that while they were waiting at the airport, the husband walked away to go grab a coffee while they waited and apparently he left his phone behind and the wife saw some spicy texts pop up from a coworker of his.
It was one of the nastiest fights I have ever literally been in the middle of.
Not sure exactly what was on those texts specifically but I think it’s fair to say they will have some things to work though 😂
TL;DR: Today I fucked up by sitting in the middle of a couple fighting because the husband was caught with sketchy texts on his phone.