Amal Surmawala, airplane seat protectorate

airplane seat protectorate

Amal Surmawala

when man protects his wife from strange girl on the airplane (white earphones in, big glasses, voice like an American) he does it with injustice with rage with that’s our seat when it isn’t and leaves his wife to shrink avoid eye contact because the protection of one woman means the degradation of another. he says it three times like a witch in a fairytale that’s not 41K it’s 41J can’t you read it’s not on the screen if strange girl is deaf and dumb then man is blind. air hostess intervenes with her professional smile takes his tickets points to his seats. man was wrong but won’t say sorry. why should he apologize to strange girl on a plane? why should he accept the blame

for yelling at a stranger? so he raises a hand in apology the same way he would raise it for a slap. strange girl says nothing. girls do not argue with strange men on airplanes.