About four hours in he pulled his headphones off and undid his belt.
“Toilet.”
And he squeezed past the girl on his other side and went off down the aisle.
And for the first time in four hours that seat was empty.
And I straightened my leg out and looked at all that space he had been taking off me.
And I thought about what he had said.
If you’re not using the space, what’s the problem?
And for the first time on that flight I smiled.
It took less than a minute.
And then I sat back and waited.
And a few minutes later he came back.
And he took one look at that seat and stopped dead.
And his face went dark red.
“What the hell have you done?”
What I did.
I took it.
That is all. There is no device in this and nothing was damaged and nobody’s property went anywhere it could not be retrieved from.
