Stuck in the middle with you?
Most flyers take pains to avoid sitting in the center — but one first-class passenger on United Airlines relayed a baffling case where a fellow flyer seemed set on a dreaded middle seat.
“Why would someone book 2E?” the incredulous plane passenger wrote in a Reddit post detailing the odd choice, which the Redditor noticed while selecting seats at the front of the aircraft online.
“What am I missing?” they added. “Is it just someone’s lucky seat…