Traveling in the middle of the night can test anyone’s patience.

If you were waiting for your bag at baggage claim and another passenger stood right in front of you, blocking your view of the bags, would you move somewhere else so you’d have a better view, or would you confront the person standing in front of you and tell him to move?

This man was in this situation, and he confronted the rude stranger with a snarky comment.

Now he’s wondering if he should’ve handled this situation differently.

Read the story below for all the details.

AITAH for asking a person to move at baggage claim

We were on a red eye flight arriving at 3 a.m.

I’m seated in Comfort Plus, so this was towards the front of the plane.

I end up getting to baggage claim sooner than 80% of the passengers.

This man was shocked when some passengers walked around him and blocked his view.

A few minutes go by and the bags start coming.

I’m standing at the yellow strip lines, minding my own business.

Next thing I know, there is a person that walks around me, along with 3 others with their oversized bag.

They stand directly in front of me, with their bag resting against me.

There’s a lot of space available next to him.

Just to be clear, there is 1 person 2 feet to my right, and it’s completely open next to them.

There are 2 others who are 3 feet to my left.

But one of the other passengers chose to stand in front of him.

This oversized bag person could’ve stood next to any of us.

We were behind the yellow striped line.

Yet, they chose to be right at the belt and completely blocked me from seeing any bags.

He confronted the man who cut in front of him.

This is where I may be the jerk.

I leaned forward and said:

“Hey, I don’t mean to be rude, but there is all this open real estate around us for you to stand. But you choose to just stand right in front of me?”

People began looking at him.

He didn’t say a word, just looked embarrassed and went to the other side of the carousel.

From there, everyone was staring at me like I was a jerk.

My partner told me to stop while I was mid-sentence and then walked away after I finished my single sentence.

His partner told him that it was rude of him to say that.

I said it very snarkily due to being exhausted from traveling.

After I grabbed the bags, my partner said that was kinda rude and I shouldn’t have done that.

From the reaction of the other people and my partner, I’m starting to second guess myself.

So, AITA?

The other man was rude, but if there was all this extra empty space, OP could’ve moved so he’d have a better view of the bags instead of confronting the rude stranger.

Let’s find out how others reacted to this story on Reddit.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

Here’s another honest opinion from this person.

Nothing wrong with that, says this person.

LOL. This person suggests a funny revenge idea.

Finally, short and simple.

Sometimes, you have to be rude to remind other people about proper etiquette.

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