Common courtesy isn’t always plane and simple — especially at 30,000 feet.
A New York City tourist is receiving death threats after asking a fellow airline passenger to help lift her heavy luggage into an overhead bin on a recent flight to Hawaii. Her request — and her seatmate’s alleged “rude as f*** response” — is dividing social media.
In a now-viral video, the traveler — a Hawaii resident named Victoria — lamented to over 100,000 viewers about her troubling encounter.
The brunette was journeying home to the Big Island from the Big Apple this month when she couldn’t get her heavy suitcase into an overhead bin on the airplane. The man boarding next to her refused to help.
“He flat out said, ‘No, I’m good. You can get it,’ and I was holding up the whole plane while he just stared,” wrote Victoria in the clip.
The video triggered a deluge of hate from virtual spectators, most of whom found her request to be entitled at worst and clueless at best.
“You are such a silly r—ed b- – -h, I really hope you either kill yourself, or someone like me does it to you,” a cyberbully wrote, in part, in response to her original video.
“F- -KING LOSER,” another remarked, prompting a cloudburst of equally harsh labels, such as “lazy b***” and “insufferable narcissist,” from other tormentors.
“Just because you’re a female doesnt mean you cant be mysoginistic. If a man doesnt want to help he doesnt have to,” a separate (and poorly spelling) critic scolded. “You dont have to be an entitled child and upload a video trying to victimize yourself just cause you didnt travel lighter. No one has to help you they can choose to. Dont be an entitled female it’s worse than a self centered male.”
“You’re a pathetic excuse for a modern woman,” another spat. “How can you exist in this world?.”
Victoria did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
She did, however, use her digital platform to explain that the man’s seemingly gruff demeanor, rather than his refusal to help, is what inspired her to call him out online.
“For me, the whole mood of the interaction changed,” said Victoria, claiming that after the man rejected her bid for aid, he huffed and puffed in aggravation while she repeatedly tried and failed to place the bulky bag in the overhead bin.
Victoria says a line of passengers even began to form behind the man, causing her to become “flustered” and overcome with “anxiety” due to her inability to store her belongings.
“I stand on the seat, and I finally get it in there, I get back down and I was like, ‘I’m so sorry. Thank you,’” the influencer recalled. “He just pushes past me and goes.”
Victoria then issued a public mea culpa for publicly bashing the guy.
“I was not upset because he told me ‘No.’ I understand that people can say no…I do not feel entitled to anybody’s help or labor,” she insisted.
“This is not a gender issue,” Victoria continued. “I don’t think men owe women anything, and I don’t think women owe men anything.”
She then praised Hawaii for being a “community based society and culture,” in which folks are more than happy to lend a helping hand — unlike New York, recently ranked the “least friendly state” in the nation.
“We live with ‘Aloha.’ We show each other ‘Aloha’ and respect. I can’t expect that same Aloha everywhere I go. That was my bad,” Victoria conceded. She then apologized for the tone of her original post.
Her accountability was met with grace from supportive commenters.
“Any man who refuses to help a woman is not a man. Thats a child who’s parents failed to teach him how to be decent. Period,” a woman chimed.
“Honestly. I know nobody owes you anything but he was rude and unkind,” another agreed.
“Reading the comments just breaks my heart for society,” groaned another. [The] ‘No one has to help you’ mindset is just so discouraging.”
“Are we not all human beings at the end of the day?”
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