Had a guy lose his shit on me boarding a flight to PHX last week. Wife and I were seated in first class, but the bins up front were full by the time we boarded so we had to go back a few rows to stow our bags and then swim upstream doing the “excuse me, excuse me” routine while we shimmy past the folks heading to the back. We get to our row and there’s a guy blocking it so I do the “excuse me” thing and he loses his shit. Dude is super red in the face and has a vein popping in his neck. Starts screaming at me a calling me an idiot while my wife is standing behind me. I maneuver to block him so my wife can sneak behind me into her seat and he starts pushing me. I slide into my seat once my wife sits down. Meanwhile the whole first class cabin is looking on in disbelief. Flight attendant immediately goes to the cockpit to let the pilots know what’s happening and they hold boarding. Gate agent boards the plane and removes the guy.
Was a super odd experience. Who hasn’t flown and had to let someone by that is swimming upstream to get to their seat? And why is that the thing that would set you off so much that you get removed from the flight for being a psycho?