Airplane Etiquette - Your Thoughts?

Hello LilyOnTheLam.Com Readers:

I was recently on a plane from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida.  I was kicking back in the Exit Row with my face buried in a magazine.  Eventually I paused, looked up and saw the following in the row ahead of me.

I travel a lot.  I try to be courteous when I can.  I usually do not strangle children when they spend a majority of the flight kicking the back of my seat.  (Emphasis on "usually.")  

I try not to give parents dirty looks when they bring their small children on a long flight without any snacks, toys or other distractions.  (Seriously?  Plan ahead, people!)  

I don't jam my knee into the seat in front of me so the person in front of me cannot recline their seat.  (Even when they have reclined so far back I feel like I am in dental hygienist school.  "Hi, I'm Lily and I am here to scrape your tartar.")

I try to exhibit behavior on an airplane that is unlikely to get me wrestled and hog-tied by any undercover air marshals.  (I'm not in to the rough stuff, boys!)  

So when I looked up and saw Mrs. Salmon/Melon colored moccasins had contorted herself into a "V" and was using the headrest of the person in front of her as her own personal foot rest.  I did a double take.  

Really?  REALLY?  Get your pastel-colored dirty bottomed shoes off the headrest and sit like a lady, old missy!  (That was my gut reaction.)

I just kind of stared at the woman's feet, not really believing what I was seeing.  And wondering how annoying it was for the person ahead of her to feel a pushing on the head rest caused by aforementioned resting feet?

A male flight attendant walked down the aisle, took one look at Mrs. Salmon/Melon colored moccasins and rolled his eyes exaggeratedly with a "whoo child, where do you think you are?" look.  But here's the thing ... the flight attendant (American Airlines) said nothing.  Just kept walking.  

I get whacked on the arm if it even looks like my seat is not in a full upright position and Mrs. Salmon is making the Exit Row her own personal shangri-la with only an eye roll from the flight attendant??  Seriously?  

Allow me to be incredibly sexist for a moment, but if the male flight attendant had been a weary, more seasoned female flight attendant I think I would have seen a head snap back, finger twirl, head roll and a Jerry Springer worthy "WOMAN! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?  GET YOUR FEET DOWN FROM THERE!  WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"  I would have brought popcorn to see that show, but ohhhhh noooo - the male flight attendant just gives an eye roll.

Excuse me, but you work here Mr. Flight Attendant.  You're really not going to say anything?  You get an eye roll from me on that one!

So what do you think LilyOnTheLam.com readers?  If you're limber and physically able to transform yourself into a "V" and smack your melon colored moccasins on the headrest of the passenger in front of you, should you?  Is it a flight faux pas or perfectly normal, justifiable behavior?

I'd love to hear your viewpoints on this issue.