Sitting in 1st class next to a kid blaring TikTok videos no 🎧.
Appropriate response
1) Kindly ask him to at least let watch whatever I am hearing
2) Ring flight attendant call button and let them deal with him
3) Evil eye through my mask
4) Grab his phone and throw it down the aisle
5) Politely explain that headphones or earbuds were invented for this exact reason

I am thinking option 4

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Option 6. Assert dominance and play bagpipe music out loud. Nothing drowns out bagpipes.

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If necessary, an accordion can be a substitute in a pinch.

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Option 2.5: after you ring the call button, give evil eye. Also consider giving them the flight provided wired headphones

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I say option 2

What did you do OP?

Option 5

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Choose kindness and ask the flight attendant to provide headphones. And yes it’s a choice!! Wtf

Option 5. I always carry a set of disposable headphones (free airline earbuds) new in wrapper. When someone does that, I pull them out… hand them the earbuds and say something along the lines of how sad it makes me that they’re too poor to afford headphones but they can have this new pair of mine. Works 99% of the time at embarrassing them (or their parents) into using headphones! Especially effective in First class.

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