Amen to this! I was on a flight once where I was at the window. A couple came back to my aisle and started to seat themselves into the other two seats. The wive immediately reached to flip up our adjoining armrest before sitting down. The lucky thing was that this was an EXIT row and the armrests didn’t swing up. The flight attendant told her and her equal sized husband they’d have to squeeze themselves in. Both were so fat that all they could do is to crunch part of their butts into the armrests. Neither’s rumps touched the cushions on the seats. I was just thankful about those seats not being expandable. They would have made my trip miserable. The both should have bought the whole row.
I had an DC-Frankfurt, Germany flight once where I was at the window and a HUGE guy with cane came down the aisle (barely fit down the aisle) sat down next to me. He was a heavy mouth-breather and rolled halfway into my seat as well as taking his own. I was crunched up against the window, having only 1/2 a seat left for myself and the flight hadn’t even taken off yet. I told the stewardess that she had to move me to first class, or find me another seat. Fortunately there was a spare in the tail, where there are only 2 seats per side and I had tons of room. The toilet smell was bad, but it was worth it.
nice thing about Southwest...you seat yourself and can avoid those situations in most cases.
It’s first come-first-seat.