I assume going in that flying will be a miserable experience. I wear headphones and have my nose in my kindle. Honestly, I don’t even wanna know about your seat situation. If you try to ask my to switch seats I’m not even going to hear you.
This is the flight-booking strategy that I’ve heard of:
For a couple traveling together, book the aisle seat and the window seat in a 3-seat row.
There is a chance that the center seat will end up unoccupied, as a single, middle seat would be pretty much the bottom of most folks’ preferences. If so, you get the whole row to yourselves.
And if the middle seat does end up occupied, you then offer the stranger to switch with one of you and they would likely take you up on that offer, cuz who wants to sit in the middle between a couple. You will then still end up sitting together in a configuration that you probably would have initially selected.
The glitch is that this would only work on a less-than-full flight, and I think those are a rarity these days.
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I was boarding Southwest Airlines once, and in one of the front rows the window and aisle seat owners were obviously friends, so without thinking I took a chance and asked for the middle seat, and the aisle owner moved over and gave me her seat.
I’m not sure I would gamble on that with any forethought, but it did pay off that once.
I’ve done that. It even worked once or twice. And sometimes we just kept the middle and aisle seats and had a stranger between us.
I’ve also booked tandem with a friend or relative. So we both get the window seat, but can pass something back over the seat.
I thought the vaccine question is a no brainer. Lyme disease can have horrific life long debilitating complications which can be hard to detect and treat
We’ve done this. I think it’s a win-win and a useful technique that doesn’t hurt anyone.
This, on the other hand, it rude. I’ve moved many times in first class so a couple (or business companions) can travel together, but never out of first class. When my wife and i are flying and one of us gets an upgrade, we offer the first class seat to someone so we can sit together in coach. That’s love, my friends.
Interesting story. I was in first class with a work friend. He had one window in row one and I had the opposite one. An amazingly beautiful woman sat next to me. Super model beautiful. I asked her if she would mind switching with my friend. She agreed, but looked shocked at the request. (My friend was shocked too)
The poll question was…Which of these promising vaccines…would have the potential to make the biggest positive difference in your life if it’s successful?
I live in Los Angeles and if you look at the occurrence of Lyme across the US, it’s a no brainer that Lyme is not the answer to the poll for most of the US (geographically).
Which is why I didn’t answer it; because I don’t know.
Lyme’s a good candidate. But one of the others could possibly seriously impact me, or somebody close to me.
Curious that CBP has a Mexican phone number.
I’ve never heard of this one, and there’s no way in hell I would go along with it.
The original poll had to do with a small child separated from its parents, so there’s a chance I might take pity. But an adult couple? And you’re asking for my seat that’s likely worth hundreds of dollars more? That’s some balls right there.
I generally try to be a nice person, but if I picked out my seat on the flight specifically, then anybody who asks to swap can kiss my tuchis.
In the unlikely event that I’m flying alone, I would consider swapping seats. But if I’ve paid to sit next to my wife, I’m not going to move away from her so that someone else who hasn’t paid can sit next to their family member.
I live in Lyme-land. The lyme vaccine was the obvious answer for me. Norovirus is unpleasant, but it’s really just a nuisance. And adults almost always recover from RSV without incident.
We should definitely seek a vaccine for the Rous Sarcoma Virus.
Save the chickens!
I picked RSV as the vaccine I’d want. Because of cough-induced asthma, it could really help me and several others I know. I’ve been through Lyme and we luckily caught it early. It was hard going for a couple of months but did resolve. Noroviruses suck but I’m survived then all with no major problems.
Give up my seat? It depends on a lot. Not for a middle seat as that makes my size issue an issue for two other folks, too. I would assume this swap would be to allow one parent to sit with the child. Truth is that poor planning on their part or even a last-minute necessary trip on their part does not constitute privlidge on their part as well.
That’s pretty much me as well. I wear sound-cancelling headphones even if I’m not listening to anything. I do not want to deal with your gossip, whiny child, whiny adult, or the drunk across the aisle.
I also live in Los Angeles, and I’ve never known anyone with Lyme Disease. If you’re in the NE, Lyme Disease is much more critical to you.
It really isn’t, though, on a person by person basis.
I picked Lyme too because I’ve had it, it sucked, and much worse than the month of misery while being treated is knowing that despite precautions I could get it again which has really dampened my enjoyment of gardening or even being outside since.
But I seem to be one of those 20ish percent of people who is immune to noroviruses, having avoided them completely for 45+ years, so I might feel more strongly about that one if I got it and had a spouse or kids bringing it home from work or school regularly. And if I was still responsible for looking after my dad who had COPD, I might be more concerned about RSV knowing it kills a few hundred kids and 14k elderly Americans a year.
Which one will be the most life-impacting for someone will really vary depending on their circumstances.
Hard to imagine anyone falling for a trick that sends them back to economy from first class. Also, the flight attendant is bound to notice and kick the intruder out.
I admit, I’m probably in that category, too, having been to two or three events where there was a norovirus outbreak without developing any symptoms worse than smelly farts. And i shared food with the people who caught it, and held hands with them.
Still, i know dozens of people who have caught norovirus, and they all recovered in 2-3 days. That’s just not that big a deal, even if it was a miserable 2-3 days. Lyme is SO much worse. Unless you live where it doesn’t exist, i guess.