A girl on a plane threw her hair on my screen, and when I politely asked her to take it away, she threw a fit: I had to teach her a lesson 😨🤔
It happened during my recent flight. A long flight, night, I finally settled down in my seat and started watching a movie. I was tired, I wanted to relax a little, to get away from the hustle and bustle. But, alas, the peace was not destined to last long.
Right in front of me sat a girl – beautiful, well-groomed, with lush long curly hair, which at some point she just took and threw over the back of the seat… right on my screen. Thick curls blocked almost the entire view. I blinked, thinking that maybe it was an accident. I waited a minute or two – suddenly she would fix it. But no. She clearly decided that the entire back compartment belonged to her hair.
A girl on a plane threw her hair over my screen, and when I politely asked her to remove it, she threw a fit: I had to teach her a lesson
I tried to be as polite as possible. I leaned forward and said quietly but clearly:
— Excuse me, could you remove your hair? It’s in the way — I can’t see the screen.
She turned around abruptly and looked at me as if I had insulted her for life. And then it began. A loud voice, discontent, and for the entire cabin to hear:
— What are you doing? It’s my hair, and I have every right to let it down as I please!
She added that I was allegedly “staring at her” and “infringing on her freedom of expression.” People started turning around, and she was almost on the verge of hysteria. She called the flight attendant and started complaining as if I was stalking her.
I sat there in a stupor. I felt both awkward and incredibly unpleasant. I am an adult, adequate person, I just wanted to calmly watch a movie, but instead I found myself in the center of some absurd drama. The flight attendant, apparently, did not want to get into a conflict and simply asked to “keep each other comfortable.” The girl, of course, did not remove her hair. On the contrary, with even greater demonstrativeness, it fell on my face again.
At some point, I realized: there is no point in enduring it any longer. And then I did something that, honestly, I did not expect even from myself. 😢😱 The girl will remember this flight for a long time. Continuation ⬇️⬇️
A girl on the plane threw her hair on my screen, and when I politely asked her to remove it, she threw a fit: I had to teach her a lesson
I opened a pack of gum. Calmly, unhurriedly, I began to chew one after another … and carefully, imperceptibly stick them to her curls.
In small portions, deeply, so that she wouldn’t notice right away. The whole process took me about ten minutes. I felt like a secret agent on a mission. No one understood anything.
Soon after that, she went up to the toilet. She comes back… and I see how her face changes from smug to stunned. She noticed.
She started fiddling with her hair, trying to get the gum out. Judging by her look, she understood perfectly well where it came from.
A girl on the plane threw her hair on my screen, and when I politely asked her to take it away, she threw a fit: I had to teach her a lesson
But she didn’t throw it again. She sat straight until the end of the flight, with the back of her head pressed neatly against the back of the seat. Not another word. Not a reproach, not a complaint.
