Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Attendant Current
Distraction; Physiological - Other; Situational Awareness; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors; Company Policy
Passenger was sold last seat in first class cabin at X6 this morning.  He had a large service animal.  X4 is still reserved for the X Flight Attendant (FA).   While I was in the back doing service the gentleman in X6 put his items all over my seat and was asleep when I returned.  During the flight we had continuous moderate turbulence for the last two and a half hours.  I ended up sitting in the forward jump seat. The few minutes that we were able to get up to prepare the cabin for arrival; the cabin quickly became moderately turbulent again and I returned to take my seat; only to find that he had placed his backpack on X4; my seat.   I again had to take the jump seat.  When the passenger was finally able to stow his luggage; I took the seat at X4 for landing and the passenger started talking my ear off. I tried to quietly tell him I had to concentrate but to no avail.  Could you please tell me why I had a passenger with a large emotional service animal next to what had been assigned to me as my seat; in the X position; when there were only XX passengers in the back?   Is this considered to be a 'social distance' block?    1.  Current assigned seat for the X Flight Attendant does not allow for safe distancing between passenger and Flight Attendant.2.  Current assigned seat for the Flight Attendant was not available during the flight when moderate/severe turbulence hit.  Took seat next to Y Flight Attendant - this did not allow for safe distance between both the Y and X flight attendants.3.  Having passenger in X6 is distracting when trying to silently review safely evacuating the plane.I learned that I cannot safely socially distance when someone is sitting next to me. I also do not have an assigned seat when turbulence hits unexpectedly; unless I quickly push all of the passenger's belongings to the floor.  It has also put me in an awkward position upon landing when I am supposed to be concentrating on my drills and safely evacuating the cabin when I have the distraction of a talkative passenger.
Flight Attendant reported a passenger was seated in the company social distancing blocked seat.