I was traveling recently with some friends and on the trip home, we missed our connecting flight. We ended up getting scattered seats on a flight a few hours later, and I ended up in the exit row. I've never been in an exit row before.

After getting settled, someone came down the aisle and he was so tall he was hunched over just walking in the plane, and he took the tiny seat right behind me. His knee reached into the aisle and was literally beside me. This man was SO. FREAKING. TALL.

So I turned around, tapped him on the knee, and asked "Hey, do you want to switch seats?"

His expression literally turned into a puppy. He was like "Are you sure?" and I said "I'm SO tiny." (I'm 5'6, flexible, skinny, and I can do intricate origami with my body while on a plane. All that leg room was completely wasted on me.)

So we switched, and he was super grateful. And I even got an empty seat beside me, which let me sit with my legs crossed and do other origami. Even seated normally, I still had like 4-6 inches of space between my knees and his seat.

Turns out he'd also missed a flight and had just barely gotten on this one. So those circumstances of both of us missing flights, ending up near one another, and it being extremely convenient to switch, idk I think it was meant to be.

He was super thankful, the flight attendants acknowledged it and said it was nice of me. Genuinely, his expression when I asked to switch made it all worth it. (And the good feelings of having done a nice thing, too.)

Saw him in the airport later sitting down and WOW he was just ALL legs. I was too shy to ask how tall he was, but it had to have been over 6'6.