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I was on a plane last month heading from Boston up to Canada, connecting flight in Toronto,

and do not ask me why, but the flight was two hours late departing from Boston.

If it had been on time, my daughter and I would have had a couple of hours to chill in our Toronto layover, but no.

So the flight lands in Toronto, and of course I am nervously staring at my watch over and over and over again.

So my daughter and I decide to get up as soon as the seatbelt light turns off and push ahead as many aisles as we can, as many rows as we can. Now, I know, I know, trust me, I know this is not

normal de-planning etiquette. So every row

we passed, I said, I'm sorry, so sorry, we've got barely 25 minutes to catch our connection.

Sorry, I'm so sorry. Can you please let us through? Unfortunately, there is an unspoken camaraderie, right, formed by the horrors of

coach class flying. So most people were super understanding, which gave me hope. And then,

man, all of a sudden, a man gets up and stands right in between me and my daughter.

Now, I usually do not care.

I really genuinely do not care how a person looks,

but this guy, 70-something, holier than thou affect,

he turns and says to me in an arch voice, we let people in rows

ahead of us get off first. And then he proceeds to very slowly pack his small bag, not because he was

infirm, mind you, but because...

I don't actually know why, but he's just a jerk, okay?

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