A Passenger Refused To Move His Foot On My Seat Until I Taught Him A Lesson

down at the foot, then up at me, with an expression of sympathetic recognition.

I kept my voice level. “Excuse me. Could you please remove your foot?”

He pulled one side of the headphones away from his ear and looked at me with the delayed attention of someone who has been interrupted during something they consider more important.

“No,” he said. “It’s continue reading …