I'm sorry to say I ate it in an unnecessarily showy manner while my fellow passengers glared.
With glazed eyes staring at the seat in front of him, the executive unconsciously pounded his foot in rhythm to his conversation, oblivious to the 15 surrounding passengers glaring at this human loudspeaker in seat 23B.
Options exhausted, I reluctantly agreed and, after holding the flight up significantly through my situation, I walked through a plane of disgruntled passengers glaring at me — the cause of their 90-minute delay — to take my seat in the corner at the rear of the plane.
When he finally agreed to stroll to the plane and board it, we had to walk down the aisle glared at by passengers seething at the delay we had caused.
When I was eventually allowed to board the plane, the glares from other passengers made the experience even more uncomfortable.
Trust me, I wouldn't win any Mother Of The Year Awards for what my daughter ate on that journey, but to quote a good friend of mine, "This is not about good parenting practices, it is about surviving the flight!" I had steeled myself for angry glares from fellow passengers and hostile looks from overworked flight attendants, but I'm happy to say that none were forthcoming.
It's time to start furiously washing our hands, disinfecting our keyboards, and glaring at the sneezing passengers on the subway — and yet despite our best efforts, many of us will still find ourselves in mucus-induced agony.
Ryan Murphy, council representative of the local chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants here, said he hid in the cockpit once a flight landed to avoid the glares and invective from passengers.
There's a standard glass sunroof up front (tilts, slides, and has a split mesh shade so that either passenger or driver can use it to block out glare while the roof is still open), but there's another opening over the heads of the backseat passengers as well.
But on one charter jet that flies out of the airport, passengers will no longer have to lower those rickety plastic window shades to block the sun's glare.
