the anonymous man writes that he was on a short, 70-minute flight with a two-by-two seating arrangement. He was in the window seat and next to him was a roughly 7-year-old boy sitting alone.

In a post shared on Reddit, the 29-year-old woman writes that while planning a recent trip to Germany, she made clear to her 35-year-old brother that she "wanted to sit alone next to the window." ...