That is rather shocking! This "guy" might have been "fighting for these jerks in Irac" and was sent home to heal!

I have a theory:

Guys are weird -- in that they won't ask for or receive help from strangers.  Whether it's because one will think that the other is in a power position, is hitting on the other, is making unnecessary eye contact, etc.  Apparently, men feel better about giving up their seats to women -- with whom they don't feel weird about being the champion -- than men.  It's a whole guy/guy interaction thing

I said it was a theory -- not a smart theory which makes sense.

-- S

OK Am I missing something? Like why you didn't give him your seat?

Looking in retrospect I probably should have, but in general it just makes more sense for the people on the aisle near the front to offer their seat so there isn't 3 people moving around and people climbing over each other, etc. I was near the back, by the window, and wedged next to a woman that I wouldn't have been able to climb over. So she would have had to have gotten up to let me out, then he would have had to hobbled back to the back, then all 3 of us would have had to get situated again. Then you have the issue of the only thing you can hang on to being on the ceiling and I can't really reach that far. That seems a wee bit ridiculous to me when there's half a dozen tall people sitting near the front on the aisle.

Would I do so could I go back in time? Well sure. But I think it's ridiculous that the situation even reached a point where that was a viable option.