Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

Heh. One time the flight attendant asked me if there was anything preventing me from performing the emergency duties. I answered "Extreme laziness;" she could tell I was joking and didn't seem to mind. Is it possible that, in your case, it wasn't so much that the flight attendant couldn't take a joke, but that she could tell that the woman wasn't really joking?

The woman complained about moving to a full row and losing the legroom, but she'd brought it upon herself.

She doesn't seem to understand that things come with a price, and that the price of sitting in the exit row is being responsible for exit-row stuff in an emergency. But if she's not comfortable with opening the door, then it's better for everyone that she not sit there.