How to Recline Your Airplane Seat Without Being a Dick

The experience of being reclined on is especially bad if it comes suddenly, mid-flight, after you’ve settled in and come to terms with your already cramped existence. It disrupts your whole, measly transitory world. And if you have a drink, food, a laptop or a tablet on your seat-back tray, well, let’s just say you’re not alone if fleeting thoughts of murder zip through your synapses.