Planemike, I encourage you to make your opinion clear to the cabin crew on your next flight.
FrequentSLF, there was a suggestion at the start of the thread to allow some members of the public do the training course and then be allocated emergency exit seats.
Here is another suggestion give the seats to aviation people, aircraft engineers and pilots. In the last couple of years I would have opened 30-40 emergency exits (and refitted them).
I must say I give some attention to the safety briefs but do not bother much with the seat belt or oxygen demo's. During this I generally give the safety card a quick look over, mostly again I regularly inspect and test seat belts and oxygen masks. When in an emergency exit, it is the full drill including giving the correct responses.