A single female flier said she endured hours of pettiness on a flight after she refused to swap her aisle seat for the middle seat next to her that was assigned to a father who wanted to sit closer to his kids.

Megan Jewell, a Texas woman with a little more than 125,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram and X, wrote on Friday that the unnamed dad kept reaching across her, to his family on the other side of the aisle, in an apparent bid to punish her. 

The post, made to her 20,000 followers on X, recounted: 'This man on my plane asked if he could take my aisle seat because he was in the middle, and his wife and kid were across the aisle from our row. 

'I politely declined. I hate the middle seat. I paid for my aisle seat in advance. He huffed and puffed the whole flight.'

'[He] kept reaching over me to signal to his wife some bulls**t I wasn’t paying attention to. Listen, idc if you booked this flight last minute and didn’t get the seat you wanted. Stop making your problems other peoples problems too,' she added.

In the three days since Jewell posted, the tweet has racked up more than four million views and more than 80,000 likes. 

And hundreds of people have weighed in on the ordeal, with some being supportive of Jewell while others were dismissive of her complaint. 

'I love that this blew up. F**k them kids, f**k them parents, as a good parent I’d be paying extra to make sure my family sat together,' one user wrote. 'Hell yeah dude,' Jewell replied. 

Megan Jewell, a Texas woman with a moderate following on social media, posted a viral tweet that has prompted a lively debate over plane etiquette

Jewell said she endured hours of pettiness on a flight after refusing to swap seats with a father so he could sit closer to his kids

This tweet discussing the ordeal, posted to Jewell's 20,000 followers on X, has garnered more than four million views and more than 80,000 likes in three days

'Plane seat switching a big no no for me, should’ve booked a different flight or earlier,' another user wrote, to which Jewell replied saying she agrees that it is alright to ask people to switch seats, 'but don’t expect them to say yes.'

'A quote I’ve always liked “your poor planning doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part,"' a third user wrote. 

Although many replies seemed to agree with Jewell and view the father as entitled, others flipped the script on her. 

'You don’t get to say no to switching seats then be pissed that you’re literally in the middle of their conversations. You have the right to not switch but not to demand they just ignore each other for hours,' a user replied.