Originally Posted by
Unimatrix One
Well, the other day I check the seat map and lo and behold, even though there are dozens of empty seats in the rows in front of us, some idiot chose the middle seat in the row that my family is sitting in.
Who the hell chooses a middle seat near the back when there are plenty of empty seats in front of it??

Argh, that just happened to us! We are flying on Friday and have aisle/window reserved. I looked at aa.com a few minutes ago and found
THAT VERY SAME IDIOT in the middle seat between us, even though there are still aisle and window seats elsewhere.
There is an actual empty exit row of three seats. These are "preferred" seats, so they don't show up for non-elites. I'm surprised no elites have snagged them.
We can't take them, because MrQ is not eligible for exit row seating.