Originally Posted by physioprof

On EWR-SEA last week, the only F seats available when my wife & I booked were 1B and 1F. We were discussing the likelihood that neither 1A nor 1E would want to switch, and the scenario we came up with is "1E has a broken left leg and needs to stick it out into the aisle & 1A really loves the south-facing view". This plane was a MAX8, so no (shallow) footwell on the 1A,B side, which could conceivably be considered a differentiator between A,B and E,F. As it turned out, 1A was perfectly happy to switch to 1F, even tho my wife just sat in 1A when we boarded and long before original-1A boarded, thus "taking before asking"...

Originally Posted by physioprof

Yes, I am quite aware as a an avid FlyerTalker that some on here are very reactive to the distinction between asking first versus switching first. When it's such a near-exact even switch as left-bulkhead-window for right-bulkhead-window in First, getting reactive about it strikes me as being difficult for the sake of being difficult. Anyway, my wife made it clear to me that she wasn't interested in hearing from me about our talmudic analyses in this thread...