Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
I'm with Ser C on this one. I remember one flight to Japan I took where I was in the middle seat in coach (we were in cost-restrictions). An Indonesian gentleman (friendly, but oblivious) was on the aisle side, and his hyperactive 6 year old was in the window seat. I had a sprained ankle, so I was begging the guy to sit next to his son. I even offered him 1K yen ($10) to switch.
Now, that almost reads like a deja-vu for me.
When flying to the US one time (vacation trip with my wife) there was a 8-10 year old boy sitting next to me. His mother was sitting to rows in front of us together with her very well-behaving daughter and did not really care to switch places with my wife and me.
Of course a 10-hour flight is quite boring for a little boy so he continuously played with some noisy hand-held videogame (which did not have any earphones - this was 10 years ago), he also spilled a soft drink on my trousers and made a mess with his lunch (spaghetti with tomato sauce - what on earth were they thinking serving this as the meal for kids???).

I guess the mother was really glad that she got rid of him for 10 hours