knee defender

This week, our minds have been consumed not with the catastrophic violence and unrest occurring both at home and abroad, but a much more localized form of strife: Airplane seat recliners verses the Knee Defenders.

The surprising thing about the recent uptick of in-air passenger disputes over reclined seats isn't that they're happening—it's that they didn't happen more before.

This is the story of a man and a woman, both 48, with two different ideas about the rules of plane etiquette.