The poster that mentioned having their backpack in the overhead reminded me of the most rage inducing moment on a plane for me.
I was sitting in the row behind first, bulkhead seat, so I had my backup in the overhead. Almost everyone has boarded and the overhead directly above me, where my bag is stowed, is closed. Guy comes up from a few rows back and starts opening the compartments. He comes to the one over my row and removes my bag, raises it up, and asks whose bag this is.
I take my AirPods out and immediately respond, “it’s mine and I’d appreciate it if you put it right back.”
He is looking down at me and says something about backpacks not belonging in overheads and puts his duffel in my place.
Thankfully, a flight attendant is right there and immediately pounces on the dude demanding he remove his bag or he is off the flight.
He take his bag down and in the process lands it on my head. I stand up at this point ready to go but a rather large passaneger a row back is already up in his face yelling at him. The dude got kicked off the flight.