Window. Every time.
nuff said :rolleyes:
I mostly fly business class :D, and would prefer a window seat because I can sleep. Unfortunately, my fricking company books me an aisle seat even though I have specified window. When I am in the back with the goats and chickens then I want an aisle seat as I can’t sleep in those mini seats anyway, so don’t much mind people crawling over me.
One thing I do insist on is being as close to the deboarding exit as possible. It saves me having to elbow that little old lady back into her seat as she farts around wondering if this is her stop, or something, and makes me late for my connecting flight. ;).
Ahhh, I see now. That is, indeed, quite courteous of you. 
I’ve never had a fear of flying, but for the longest time I had this little ‘ritual’ where, just before takeoff, I would imagine the plane crashing immediately. It was nothing I imagined deliberately (say, as an attempt to ward off bad things), it never made me nervous, and I always imagined myself surviving – it would just pop into my head, every time. It stopped happening a year or two ago.
{shrug}
Heh.
I can’t remember the last flight I took that arrived on time, and since I fly nonstop whenever possible I always hang around to let the folks with connecting flights get off the plane ahead of me. I seem to be the only one who ever does this, though, even when the flight attendants ask everyone to let those with connecting flights deplane first. It almost makes me wish that airlines would try to organize/prioritize the deplaning process, but I guess there’s already a big enough stampede danger…