India, June 5 -- A Reddit post by a traveller detailing their unpleasant experience on a five-hour flight has sparked widespread discussion about seat etiquette and passenger entitlement.

The passenger, who had booked a window seat months in advance, recounted how a woman boarding the flight with her teenage son asked if they would switch seats so he could enjoy the view. "I politely said sorry I'd prefer to keep my seat," the post reads.

However, the woman did not take the refusal well. "She immediately says, wow that's just a seat, don't be difficult," the Reddit user recalled. "I smiled and said, Exactly. It's my seat."

What followed was an uncomfortable journey, as the woman, who ended up sitting next to the original poster, "let o...