It should be illegal to even ask to switch seats with another passenger on the aisle when you have a middle seat. Have we moved this far from a barter economy that people have lost sight of how to swap items of equal value? The person on the aisle, who is asked to switch, is put in no win situation. If they say no, they feel guilty for keeping two lovers/friends/family members apart just because they wanted to keep their seat. Yet if they say yes, they sit for six hours in the middle seat.
It happened a couple times on my flight tonight and I felt bad for those involved. Therefore I’m instituting a new airline seat switching law. Seat switching requests can only be made when pertaining to equally valued seats. Penalty for violating the law is immediate banishment to the seat next to the bathroom and the screaming baby.
I have discovered that “most” travellers are idiots. We took the johnston advice and always get the aisle and window seat hoping for an open seat between us - if someone shows, we give them the aisle and they think we rock!
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