A traveler says the woman beside her cried for three hours after she refused to trade her aisle seat for a middle seat so the woman could sit with her husband. I would have declined too, though I think there is room to defend your seat without turning someone else’s tears into a public spectacle.

Passenger Says Seatmate Cried For Three Hours After She Refused To Swap Seats

Travel blogger Tomiko Harvey says she was flying from Istanbul to Washington, D.C., when the woman in the middle seat beside her asked her to switch with her husband.

The proposed trade would have put Harvey in a middle seat two rows ahead for the roughly ten-hour journey.…