{"id":406435,"date":"2026-01-11T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406435\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:08:19","slug":"hungry-passenger-ate-her-preordered-vegetarian-meal-on-a-flight-but-her-seatmate-accused-her-of-being-rude-for-not-waiting-twistedsifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406435\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting \u00bb TwistedSifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-674082\" class=\"wp-image-674082\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Flight attendants working their way through the plane, serving food and drinks\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" title=\"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Food-Thumb.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-674082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pexels\/Reddit<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always surprising when a stranger invents a rule that only benefits them.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you were on a long flight and the moment you started eating a special meal, the person beside you acted offended? Would you say something? Or would you ignore them and keep eating?<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/EntitledPeople\/comments\/1oj3zwq\/seatmate_in_a_flight_complained_that_i_started\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">following story<\/a>, a traveler finds herself in this situation and decides to keep enjoying her food. Here\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>On long flights, I preorder a special meal online because I am a vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>On most flights, the flight attendant brings the special meals first and then starts the normal meal service for the rest.<\/p>\n<p>On my last flight, a perfect stranger sat next to me and told me that I was rude and inconsiderate because I started eating my vegetarian food before their meal arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The person got so worked up.<\/p>\n<p>They said that it was a basic rule to wait until everyone in the row got their food and that I ruined their flight.<\/p>\n<p>Their face was red, and they\u00a0 rolled their eyes several times<\/p>\n<p>I stared at them. This is next-level entitlement, right? We are not eating together on the same table in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes! It\u2019s hard to imagine getting upset over that.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s check out what the people over at Reddit think about it.<\/p>\n<p>This person thinks it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-674078\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Food 3 Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" title=\"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Food-3.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how this person feels about etiquette.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-674079\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Food 2 Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" width=\"800\" height=\"657\" title=\"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Food-2.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><\/p>\n<p>For this person, she was free to enjoy her dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-674080\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Food 1 Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" title=\"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Food-1.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><\/p>\n<p>Yet another reader explaining table etiquette.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-674081\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Food 373869 Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" title=\"Hungry Passenger Ate Her Preordered Vegetarian Meal On A Flight, But Her Seatmate Accused Her Of Being Rude For Not Waiting\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Food_373869.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><\/p>\n<p>There was no need to wait. Who knows how long it was going to take anyway, and she\u2019s entitled to a warm meal.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a <a href=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2023\/12\/daughter-invited-herself-on-parents-40th-anniversary-vacation-so-they-can-babysit-the-kids-so-dad-tricks-her-and-travels-to-another-place-entirely\/?utm_source=IN-ARTICLE&amp;utm_medium=IN-ARTICLE&amp;utm_campaign=IN-ARTICLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">daughter who invited herself to her parents\u2019 40th anniversary vacation for all the wrong reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Reddit It\u2019s always surprising when a stranger invents a rule that only benefits them. What would you do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[161545,64,63,99,176332,215434,161103,27635,20246,2579,4048],"class_list":["post-406435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airplane","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-entitled-people","tag-entitled-stranger","tag-etiquette","tag-flight-attendant","tag-picture","tag-reddit","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}