Seat Squatter Caught and Rude Entire Flight

Boarding on DL614 CUN to LAX last night and I couldn’t even believe my eyes after seeing all the seat squatter posts when a couple was in our comfort+ row. I was 12B and fiancé was 12C. But what went down after I confronted them was ridiculous.

Let me set the scene. Original departure was 7:15 and this flight was already delayed an hour. We’re finally boarding and this couple about our age (late 20s/early 30s) is in our row, which can’t be right because we’re the middle and isle. I tell them they’re in my seat (middle) and they oddly start fumbling around and mentioning they have a dog with them. I’ll admit, my tone was rude at this point because they have now held up boarding and picked a seat on their own as if we’re flying southwest. My patience is low in that moment and usually I will grit my teeth and deal with the side effects, but I am highly allergic to dogs. I say “ok well I’m allergic to dogs and we paid for these seats.” The wife/girlfriend responds “we did too.” I say nothing because NO YOU DID NOT PAY FOR THE MIDDLE SEAT BECAUSE WE DID. They both start fumbling around more and female who was originally in the window seat I presume they did actually book, and male who was sitting in my seat both get out of the row so female and dog can go to the window seat behind us in row 13. I never mention my allergy to them again and never involve an FA. The debacle is over you would think….no. As we’re taking off I realize that male who is sitting next to me is psychotically keeping his arm on the armrest.

Everyone knows the middle seat gets both arm rests.

Mind you I’m a female. I wonder for a bit if maybe he doesn’t know any better so once his arm moves a little, I put my arm on the arm rest. He starts applying light pressure on my arm with his to push my arm off once he notices. This continues for probably 10 minutes give or take. I tell my fiancé what the guy is doing and he offers to swap seats with me once we’re at altitude. Him and I switch seats and I think life is fine the rest of the flight. WRONG. Once we finally get off the plane (after waiting on the tarmac for over an hour at LAX) my fiancé tells me this guy silently fought with him over the armrest the same way he did with me for the entire flight. I am both shocked and validated at the same time. Because not going to lie I was gaslighting myself and wondering if I was making up what de did to me in my head because it was such odd behavior. I have to mention that my fiancé did say he started getting a little petty with him after the guy continued with his arm rest antics. Since he’s much bigger he started to spread his legs into the guys area. IMO if anyone deserved that, it was this dude. I cannot rationalize how or why this man did this when we did absolutely nothing to him other than ask to sit in our own seats. Dude in 12A if you’re reading this, you’re a weirdo. Do better.