Flying Solo

Airplanes are a very interesting place. You are stuck next to the same people, the same odors and the same scene for a good few hours and you pretty much just need to make the best of it.

Everyone always wishes to be sitting next to someone normal or entertaining but that never actually happens in real life. Real life is not a fairy tale romance where you meet the love of your life or your future best friend in the seat next to you on a cross-country flight. Reality is that you usually get stuck in between an annoying couple who keep passing food over you or next to some lady in the aisle seat who sleeps the entire flight and you can't ever get up. I get so jealous of the people having interesting conversations around me while I'm always stuck next to the snoring old Russian man.

But my flight yesterday was different.

Just in case you were wondering what gate I was at, now you know.

Everything from the morning on was running smoothly. I got to the airport on time, I wasn't charge overweight fees (even though my bag was probably overweight), I brought enough food with me to last a good few days...

Thanksgiving meal. (There was also a sushi and yogurt parfait. Don't judge me.)

The only thing that would make this flight better was to sit next to someone cool.

And as I was walking down the aisle to my seat, I was silently praying that I wouldn't end up stuck in the middle of the family of 5 with the 3 screaming children. Seat 20H was like a gift from God. Exit row, normal human being next to me, located in the middle of the airplane right next to the kitchen. The steward gave me free earphones because he said the movie was too dumb to make me pay $5 to watch it. I got an unexpected hug from the stewardess because she was giving the other stewardesses hugs and she didn't want me to feel left out. This is why I fly alone. (Also because when I actually end up in the correct city, I feel like I deserve a pat on the back for not getting on the wrong plane.)

I always get on the airplane hoping to make new friends and this was the only time in my life that that's actually happened.