So I ask the agent at the desk in my best Alec Baldwin...
'Would there be any seats available in an exit row?'
'Well Mr. Baldwin, for you we have one last exit row seat. However, it doesn't recline.'
'Oh that's ok. Thanks for looking. Ill keep my crappy seat'
Ten minutes later we board and I make my way back to my original seat.... past the exit row with its seats that don't recline to 27B... which also, does not recline.
Its a Charley Brown kinda world.