Originally Posted by
GatorBlues
In claiming that they've never been asked politely to switch, some of our posters are being disingenuous, are incredibly unlucky, or are hyper-prone to be offended.
or, a slightly less harsh interpretation, merely circular in their reasoning. I mean, if someone honestly believes that the request in and of itself is impolite, then by definition they have never received a polite request.
I find this point of view to be wack-a-doo, but I suppose it has an internal consistency.
If multiple pages and a moderator timeout haven't caused anyone to reconsider their views, maybe we should just move on and wait for the next story:
Overheard on DTW-BWI today: I'm in 3D, someone else in 2D. Another pax arrives and says "we seem to have been assigned the same seat! 2D?" 2D* says no, I'm in 2C, I just made a mistake." He said this in a way that I didn't find particularly convincing, but it didn't involve me, and the real 2D didn't seem to care at all, as it was a short flight and as he pointed out it was going to be overcast pretty much the whole way.