The fight for elbow space.

Anyone ever have the ordeal of going to a movie or taking a flight and hoping that it would be a luxurious and enjoyable experience but instead turns into a fight for your right to elbow space. Being kind of tall and certainly taller than the usual ergonomic model citizen I have experienced such circumstances on countless occasions. Imagine having to watch a movie you have been looking forward to with your elbows firmly fixed and set into your ribs as those around you hog the elbow rests either side of you. Such events which are supposed to be enjoyable turn into festering, annoying experiences. Am I alone in thinking this way?

The worst though is the plane journey as really, how many times do you fly a year? For me I used to fly a lot when I would be visiting Jill and it was always a source of worry as I claimed my seat to see who exactly would come to fill those seats principally to my left and to my right and also dont forget those who will be sitting directly in front of me. I always hoped for a person who would be small and wirey and also preferrably a person who was not social, the type who would not make a lot of conversation. There is a certain "journey etticate" a certain rule whereby you should not go so far in your conversation as to noticably annoy this person. So I always liked to see the teenage to early 20's person who had a walkman or ipod with earphones in tow, you always knew that they would totally dis-engage from their surroundings and keep to themselves. But sometimes it was not always those to your left and to your right that was the most critical positions around you. No rather it was the one directly in front of you. That un-identified person who could really invade your personal space. That person whom you knew was a man or a woman whether they were young or old, however the one thing you did not know was what type of person this would be. You know the type who worries about other peoples issues for want of a better word (and yes I realise these are my issues but I also hope they are shared by many others) or would this be the person who never had the slightest idea of what the result of their actions would do to others. So in effect would this person be an inconsiderate or not?. Would they be a seat adjuster?, or would they be sitter?. Generally I never knew when the seat adjusting would happen but sometimes it would be right away and then sometimes when after food had been served, and then when they wanted to sleep. Now some people may think that because they paid for a seat that they should and can do what they want, of course I disagree (hence the post creation), I believe that one should take every care to realise that there are people seated behind you and I would never invade their personal space. For a person of my height every area of space in a plane is precious and any slight adjustment of the seat in front of me is an invasion of this space. When this happens I long for the stewardess to come along and ask the person to set their seat in the upright position but alas it always takes far too long. Some of the stewardess' have OCD did you ever notice that they obsess about some small things such as making sure that all seats are in the upright position?. They are the good ones in my book. And so I ask who decided to have single arm rests between seats. Also a suggestion is to have an "elbow etticate" whereby everyone should rest only one elbow each. Left or right I dont care.