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Old Jun 17, 2023, 2:42 am
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Originally Posted by tarheelnj
Perhaps a response to a request to move, like "I'd be glad to, as long as it's another aisle seat forward of the row I'm in now." That way, you're not actually saying no. If they insist, then there's always the fallback, "my Dad/Mom told me not to swap my seat, sorry." Who's going to argue with that?
I recall getting asked to switch to a middle on a TATL in Y years ago, and while I was really tempted to say "Are you serious?!", my response was something like: "I'd really like to help, but I'm just not sitting in a middle seat".
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