Sitting in Silence
Once I was flying from New York to Las Vegas to meet up with some friends and there was a guy next to me who was clearly pretty interested in chatting, so we had a very generic small talk conversation and then I started watching a movie.
Mid-movie I had to use the bathroom, so I asked if I could get past him, he said something and gestured what I thought meant “oh want me to move” and I just was doing my not ‘actually listening and yeah yeah I have to get past’ reaction.
He walks out into the aisle so I can get out of our row, but he is between me and the nearest bathroom, so I move a step or two down the aisle so he can get back into our row of seats but instead he starts walking toward the bathroom. I thought, well fine, I guess he will go to the other one since both vacant signs are lit up.
But then he walks just past the bathrooms and doesn’t try and open either of them, but oh well, I have to urinate. So I go in and within a few seconds someone seems to be trying to open the door, I say “just a minute” or something. It jiggles a few more times, and then I hear the guy from the seat next to me’s voice. Something like “let me know when you are ready” or something.
Anyhow, I finish up and open the door and he’s standing right in front of it and starts trying to get in, so I just squeeze past him and have to push him a bit and run back to my seat.
He comes back too and sits right back next to me, and we both sit in silence for the remainder of the flight.
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