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" Today I caught a flight to Florida for some fun-in-the-sun time for the weekend, and I ran smack-dab into a funny little observation about traveling solo versus traveling in a couple. In a couple, your seating issue is trying to get the airline to put your next to your man, or asking a fellow passenger to switch. As a single, you are that fellow passenger being asked to move since you&amp;#x27;re clearly on your own. Which, obviously, happened to me today. I was just about to sink into my nice open aisle seat when the woman seated next to me politely asked if I&amp;amp;#8217;d mind switching with her husband. I fearfully glanced to where her husband was seated, and of course, it was a dreaded middle seat. And not just a squished, no-elbow-room middle seat, but one next to a tween boy, the most terrifying kind of child. (They are like video game-loving aliens to me.) I gritted my teeth but agreed to switch. I am expecting calls from the Pope and Queen Elizabeth about my sainthood and lady-knighting any minute now. JK, JK, it was no big deal whatsoever. They were very gracious and not pushy about it, and I was happy to let them have their togetherness. Plus, the kid was totally fine. (Although I admit that if the flight had been longer than a few hours, I might have stood in the way of their in-air bonding.) But it also made remember a long ago trip when I was traveling with a then-boyfriend (sigh, my good-old coupled days), and it was me and my guy asking another girl to switch with one of us. She declined because she had a friend sitting across the aisle from her, which we couldn&amp;#x27;t have known. And of course, she could have said no for no reason at all, and we would have understood. We said, &amp;quot;OK, no problem,&amp;quot; and took our separate seats, and it should have been a non-issue after that. Except that she spent the next five minutes loudly complaining to her friend that she couldn&amp;#x27;t believe we had the nerve to ask. I was so annoyed! We didn&amp;#x27;t give her any kind of hard time for saying no, so what was the big deal? Is it offensive to ask people for favors? Sheesh! I guess she was just not the World&amp;#x27;s Most Generous Person, like I clearly am. Tee-hee. I&amp;#x27;m kidding, you guys, I promise. When you&amp;#x27;re traveling in a couple, is it important to you to sit together on the plane? If you&amp;#x27;re traveling single, would you mind giving up your seat for a couple to sit together? What about if it meant you had to have a terrible middle seat? Add a seat swap to this list: 4 Things That Will Happen When You Go on a Romantic Weekend Away&amp;amp;#8212;Alone"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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