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Wait for it. resources for anyone who may need them in our show notes. I mean, the hope is that no one sits next to you, like regardless of your size.

I don't know anyone who's like, oh, goody, a stranger is going to get to be really cozy with me for a while.

This is Bridget McDonnell.

She's talking about a flight she took to South Carolina in the summer of 2023.

So you kind of do that thing where you're like, you have the arm rest up.

You're like rooting through your purse in the middle seat.

People are passing.

You're not making any eye contact. You are, oh my God, you've never been more interested in the thing that's at the bottom through your purse in the middle seat. People are passing. You're not making any eye contact.

You are, oh my God, you've never been more interested in the thing that's at the bottom of your purse.

You know what I mean?

She flew Southwest, which was her go-to airline.

Southwest has what's called an open seating policy, which allows folks to pick the seat they want when they get on the plane.

Brigid had chosen a seat that she liked.

I was the second row from the bathroom, so we're not talking about like prime real estate.

I got in the window seat, as I always do. I put in my little seatbelt extender. No one was back

there with me yet. As the plane began to fill up, the flight attendants announced that people

would need to move their bags from the middle seat. Bridget can no longer feign a search inside her purse.

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