This morning on My wife, our 16-month old child and myself flew MLI-ORD. The equipment was an EMB-145. I had 12A, where my wife and son had 11B. Whenever we fly out of MLI, on this particular equipment, this is the seat selection we get.

When the FA found out that my wife and I were together (she deduced this from the manifest, I guess), she announced to the whole plane that I was "unreliable" and that I would have to move out of 12A. in all my years of flying for business and flying with my wife and child, I have never heard this. So I asked the FA what she meant and she said that I would have to move and she would not elaborate on why I was so "unreliable."

I guess she said this because she felt that in case of an emergency, I might try and open the door first and get my family out before the other passengers. But isn't that the object of the reading the passenger safety card: to get the door open and help passengers out, regardless if they are my wife and child or not, since they are seated one row out of the exit row, and not one row further?

Seacrest! Out!