That is what I sat back and waited means. I was waiting for an audience.
What I did not say.
One sentence.
Is there one for her as well?
Five words, to a cabin manager who was being as helpful as it is possible for a person to be, who had already stood in that aisle and backed me.
She would have looked. There may not have been another seat; it was a full flight and 4C was the last spare pair in that cabin, and Kemi has since told me so in a letter.
But she would have looked, and that girl would have known that somebody had asked.
And I did not say it, and I knew I was not saying it, and I have had fourteen months to find a version in which I did not know.
I was out of that seat in about ninety seconds with my shoes in my hand.
