Same thing for me...I was in the 2nd exit row on a Ted flight and after the door closed, an FA asked how old a boy was in the first exit row directly in front of me...He said he was 14.

One would have thought it was rocket science to rearrage this...It was a party of three...The dad and the boy were in the exit row (window/middle), the mom was in an aisle E- seat 2 rows behind me. I'd have said to the guy next to the mom "How about an exit row seat? There's 10 times the legroom!" and put the kid next to the mom, middle for middle, quick and easy...Oh no, they had to go over the PA and ask if someone would move, one guy got up, but then he realized he was giving up his aisle for a middle, so he retreated, then they asked if two people could be move, then it was three, I didn't even understand what they were trying to do...They ended up with a quadurple switch, and the family was still split up--like originally ticketed, but the kid was finally out of the exit row.

Ended up costing us nearly a half-hour by the time it was said and done, we missed our slot, pushback took much longer even after it was settled...Such a pain.

I blame whomever put the 14-year-old in the exit row more than anything, but the FAs didn't handle it with much common sense either.