A New York real estate agent takes matters into his own hands and slaps passengers on the hand as they try to open HIS sun visor. what will you do

New York real estate agent Eric Goldie was clearly fed up with a fellow passenger reaching forward to open the blinds during a flight.

So much so that he took matters into his own hands and mysteriously snapped his fingers – capturing the icy interaction on camera and defiantly saying, “My window, my rules.”

Goldie’s TikTok of the incident has now garnered six million views, sparking an ongoing online discussion about flight etiquette.

In the video, an exhausted Goldie, who has more than 150,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, twice slaps the hand of a second passenger as he tries to open the curtain behind him.

Goldie posted the video in response to an earlier video he posted online detailing some of the nuisance behavior seen by airline passengers.

Many viewers agreed with Goldie’s righteous actions and posted their support in the comments.

Speaking to DailyMail.com about the knocking episode, Goldie said: “We’ll all be traveling again and he (the unruly window opener) must have forgotten what the rules are when it comes to the blinds. Lesson learned.’

He added that the whole incident prompted him to ask: “Has travel ticket gone out the window?” Pun meant.

“Who has the guts to try MULTIPLE TIMES after saying no,” wrote one commenter.

“I think it would have unleashed latent violence within me. like broken fingers,” wrote another.

To further rationalize his vigilance, Goldie released a follow-up video saying the window’s position merited his response.

That is, the window was not shared between seats, but was firmly within Goldie’s reach on the plane.

“I can see how it can be confusing, but there is no confusion about whose window it was,” he said in the follow-up.

In his previous post, Goldie specifically stated that he had no problem with passengers looking out of airplane windows during takeoff and landing.

But whoever wants to unleash blinding lights in the cabin at random intervals during the flight deserves no pity from him.

An exhausted Goldie looked sane in the furious video he posted on his TikTok

Online users largely agreed that opening the window in bright light during a flight is annoying and unacceptable when the window is not even next to the offender’s seat

In the Internet age, proper airline etiquette has become a discourse of its own, as tired and frustrated passengers of all persuasions share their experiences and reactions.

Earlier this month, a woman shared a story about how she saved a fellow passenger from a sneaky attempt to change seats.

Seattle-based TikTok creator @not.christinayang shared her experience on a “four or five hour” flight from Hawaii to Seattle in a recent video that has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.

According to the travelers, she was sitting in a row of three seats in premium economy when someone asked the woman next to her to change seats so she could sit next to her friend.

One airline passenger described the moment she saved another passenger from an unfair seat swap

During the flight, the creator said that an aisle passenger asked the passenger in the middle seat – a soft-spoken Japanese woman – to change seats.

“She looks at the Asian lady next to me … she says, ‘Let’s switch places, I’ll be back in 26.’

“Mind you, we are in the premium economy. We are in row eight with unlimited drinks and snacks. So the lady next to me says, ‘Oh, you know we’re swapping places? Um, okay, okay.”

“And so she starts getting up and I’m like, ‘No!’

And so the lady said, “Oh, but it’s a window seat, it’s so much better than a middle one that she has,” she recalled.

“I thought: ‘Except for the fact that we travel together. Hi? Of course we are both Asians, we know each other. And 26 is not premium economy…it’s like you can smell the toilet there. No!”

The TikTok video received thousands of comments, with some slapping the passenger who wanted to switch seats and others finding the scenario humorous.

“Let’s trade.” Not even: “Do you want to trade places with me?” Some people are so entitled,” one person said.

“Or her friend could have withdrawn and sat with her. They are not asking anyone to downgrade for convenience,” added another.

A third person wrote: “I’m sure someone from row 26 would have taken the free upgrade if it was that important.”

“You are a hero,” someone else said simply.