Should have asked whoever was sitting next to him (behind you) if they wanted to switch with the wife. 

If he wants to sit next to his wife that badly, his wife could have offered her upgraded seat to the aisle or window seat in the row behind you and there almost certainly would have been a taker. Assholes.

I have ONE time been “re”-assigned seats away from my (at the time) 2 year old. I calmly asked the gate agent if they were going to separate me from him, and suddenly we were in Comfort+ instead of steerage.  I had originally booked comfort+ seats as I am 6'3" and do do well when I am jammed into a “normal” seat. …

Was on a flight once and was sitting on the row with the mid-plane evacuation doors—puh-lenty of legroom. A man was sitting in the row behind me, middle seat even, and he said the woman sitting next to me was his wife, so could I please change seats?

The only time where I even try is when we have to book on an airline that doesn’t do assigned seating (or during that period when the airlines hadn’t decided how much and how often to fleece you for assigned seats).

No way I’m switching seats so that I can get my legs crushed while some lady who wasn’t paying attention while booking can not feel bad about her incompetence.

Richmond VA has a serious weirdness about dropping chicken bones on the sidewalk. It’s to the point that the mods for the city’s subredddit have started deleting/blocking people posting pictures of them. We also have trashed so many electric scooters that Lime or Bird or...whatever, one of the companies decided that…

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Here in Omaha, there’s currently an effort by a state lawmaker to get people to start zipper merging when there is a lane closed for construction, which is the correct way to do it. People here get into the through lane way too early, and back traffic up for tens of blocks. Then they get angry with the people who use…

Chicago has two well-known winter dick moves:

can very confidently say Birth of a Nation should have had its time reduced to roughly zero minutes long

I remember the first time I saw Gone With the Wind, and at the end of the movie she does the whole “With God as my witness, I will never go hungry again” bit in the ruins of Tara, and I thought “damn, what a strong ending; that movie was a little long, but pretty great” and then the screen said INTERMISSION and it…

That’s fair. My wife and I went to the symphony the other day to watch them do the score for the little mermaid while watching the movie at the same time. That’s a relatively short movie, but they had an intermission. Granted the Symphony always does intermissions for the players, but if a 90 minute movie can be…

If films are going to be 3+ hours long I am absolutely fine with that. We just need to bring back intermissions. Even if intermissions at Broadway shows have become 15 minute stampedes to the restrooms and bars it’s still helps break up the evening.

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Yeah, movies ARE way too long. How can I binge Friends if I have to sit through a 2.5 hour movie? 

If all you’ve had is the colored horseradish version you’re in for a treat. The real root version doesn’t do this to me at all. 

So my nasal passages aren’t being dissolved from the inside until my head is hollow?

I don’t have a strong feeling about it, it looks ok - but what I find humorous is how people are revolted by an extra lens in a square on a phone that otherwise looks identical to the last several versions. Two lenses in an oval - fine. Three lenses in a square - HORRIBLE.

No, not every smart phone needs or want a PRO camera. That is why there is a good version that costs $300 less and has a very good camera