Frankly, I usually love flying Southwest Airlines, especially for short trips. They’re cheap, they’re usually on time, and, if you check-in on line, you’re usually guaranteed a good seat.
Which is why this story from Warren Meyer is just so amusing. You see, he got an A boarding pass, which usually guarantees any seat on the plane you want, but then fate intervened:
But then I glanced at the occupant of the window seat. AARRGGGHHH! Sitting there was an extraordinarily attractive young female, dressed quite fetchingly with a bare midriff and a short skirt. At that moment, I knew I was doomed. No matter how small I made the middle seat look, some twenty-something guy with minimal self-awareness was going to take that seat to try to hit on the girl at the window. And sure enough, despite the fact he was as big as me and our shoulders were ordained to fight for space for the two-hour flight, he homed in on the middle seat next to me like a cruise missile. Worse, I had to listen to him trying to pick the girl up for 2 hours.
Umm, dude, why didn’t you just move to the middle seat ?
