Dear People Who Recline Their Seats on Airplanes

Dear People Who Recline Their Seats on Airplanes,

Congratulations! You found a button that magically made your seat more comfortable!  You should win an award! You’re essentially Christopher Columbus!  But have you ever thought about the person behind you who might be trying to work on something.  Maybe, just maybe, they’re a 6’1” high school student working on their computer trying to do their English homework.  But no, let’s not let them put their computer on the tray table; let’s make them work at a ridiculously uncomfortable angle that requires the neck flexibility of the antichrist because you want three more degrees of back angle so you can “relax.”  Lets take away the two inches of legroom that a kid with long legs already doesn’t have so you can feel comfortable.  Why would you ever think that you are personally entitled to the space in font of the passenger behind you?  When does society ever work like that? When you are waiting in line for something, do you just randomly throw your head back and think that it was your room?  Also, I would rather not look at the top of your head for the entire flight because I'm obviously not going to be able look at my computer.  At least have the decency to ask them or even better… not recline your chair.  Wait whaaa? You might say that’s impossible, how can I sit through a two-hour flight without having my back in a stupidly reclined position?  It’s actually easier than your discovery of this button.  You sit a slightly upward position that is probably good for the posture you don’t have.  Then you do this thing called waiting two hours until you get home and then on your bed you can recline all you want while watching Sunday night football without ruining a kid’s with homework day.

Signed with much love from,

The people who can actually sit through a flight with their seat not reclined