Never made and long term friends, BUT on one flight five years ago I was dreading my 4 hour ordeal when I heard the woman in the seat next to my assignment asking for a belt extender. HOWEVER, she did not spill over into my seat, had no bad odor, and approx. 10 minutes into the flight we both reached into our purses to grab out cross stitching which just happened to be pieces from the same designer! We wound up doing more talking than stitching and it gave me a reprieve from the worry in my mind about going to see my son, who was in intensive care from an accident just 5 weeks after my daughter, his younger sister, died. BTW, my son did recover from most of his injuries.