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Just before I left, I posted that I was just taking a train to a train to a plane to a plane to a taxi to a hotel, what could go wrong? Turned out, a lot. I wont get into all the mishaps and problems, but I will share one story from my second flight because people are very strange sometimes.
You know how a dog sometimes feels to the need to be at attention to their human and nothing with sway them from that unwavering focus? Nose must be up close? Imagine that behavior, but it's a guy in a blue polo shirt and a metal Rolex watch. There was a couple where the girl was in the middle seat of the row ahead of me and the boyfriend was right next to me, also in the middle seat. His head was between two seatbacks 'at attention' to the girl. He was leaned to the left side of her seat the whole time, leaning well into my space. When we had any bumps he just wound up pressed against me and never even acknowledged repeatedly just swaying into me. She was not paying attention to him, she was reading a book.
I could have put the armrest down to make his weird behavior less comfortable, and I have literally just pushed people into their own spaces before. But I was so creeped out that I just stuck in my headphones and closed my eyes. I didn't want to be involved at all in whatever that was, even interfering with it was too much.
You know how a dog sometimes feels to the need to be at attention to their human and nothing with sway them from that unwavering focus? Nose must be up close? Imagine that behavior, but it's a guy in a blue polo shirt and a metal Rolex watch. There was a couple where the girl was in the middle seat of the row ahead of me and the boyfriend was right next to me, also in the middle seat. His head was between two seatbacks 'at attention' to the girl. He was leaned to the left side of her seat the whole time, leaning well into my space. When we had any bumps he just wound up pressed against me and never even acknowledged repeatedly just swaying into me. She was not paying attention to him, she was reading a book.
I could have put the armrest down to make his weird behavior less comfortable, and I have literally just pushed people into their own spaces before. But I was so creeped out that I just stuck in my headphones and closed my eyes. I didn't want to be involved at all in whatever that was, even interfering with it was too much.
