The middle seat sux galore. It's the pits. Even worse, is the window seat with two others you have to negotiate with to get through to use the lav. Doing many hours on these flights is murder. Worst case I had was getting pounded by a Chinese old man as he kept kicking the hell out of my seat. I had to turn around a few times and stare him down like I was going to knock him on his butt. He was awful and rude. Another time I had to sit in the back in the smoking section of a NWA flight to NRT from Seattle but I was just happy to get a seat so I didn't mind smoking other peoples smoke as the Japanese dudes surrounded me with lit cigarrettes. I was going home to Saipan to my babe so I was happy. Probably full of emphazyma but nonetheless, happy to be home on Saipan after being away from the wife for ten days. I bet I took the last nonrev seat too. They told me at the counter that it was full and I wasn't going to get on. Then, at the last minute as I was contemplating my options, the guy escorted me to the back of the 747 smack in between all the smokers. But it was a "HAPPY SMOKE" nonetheless because I got on. Once I made that leg to Japan, I knew I was home free to Guam/Saipan. I had to jump seat to Guam on our DC-10. The other jump seat was taken by a co-worker I ran into in NRT that had time on me, but there were 2 JUMPSEATS and I got one of them. It was loaded. I made it home with no seat to spare. That's a roughin it nonrever if I ever saw one.