Reclining airplane seats are a terrible idea and should be banned

“‘We paid for these goddamn seats, and we’ll recline them if we want to.’ So then everyone was angry: I was angry because I had no room, and she was angry because I passive-aggressively kicked her seat once every 15 minutes — often enough to be annoying, but not often enough to definitely be on purpose.”

Funny how such a little thing could become such a bone of contention to so many people. Having spent days in airports and on numerous long flights though, I can certainly see where Dan Kois is coming from: there are few things more annoying during a flight than having what little personal space you are allotted cut down to a fraction by the person in front of you.