Originally Posted by
Hakluyt
Ah, the aisle seat - so loved by flyers who were assigned a middle seat. Some months ago when I arrived at my reserved aisle seat, a young man was sitting there - firmly. He refused to move and haughtily offered me a middle seat, which I refused. He would not relinquish the seat, so I looked for a f/a and when he approached the young man had a change of mind. It takes all kinds
Under some circumstances (e.g. I'm too tired to put up with that garbage) I'll carefully look at my boarding pass, carefully look at the seat number printed overhead, and state that I'm about to sit down in my seat and it would likely behoove him not to be in it when that happens.