A 10-year-old girl kicked my seat for two hours on a 12-hour flight while her mom snapped, “She’s a child. Deal with it.” When they left for the restroom, I noticed something that gave me the perfect revenge. By the time they returned, Mom’s nightmare was just beginning.
I was sitting in a hot spring surrounded by snowy mountains.
Snow monkeys everywhere. They soaked peacefully, like retired accountants on vacation.
I closed my eyes. Finally, some peace.
THUMP.
Something hit me in the back.
A small monkey sat behind me, staring at the sky like he had never met a spine in his life.
He tilted his head.
THUMP. THUMP.
Now there were two.
“Seriously? It’s an entire mountain. Go bother someone else.”
One of them jumped up and slammed into me.
BANG.
My eyes snapped open. Seat back. Dark window. Engine hum.
Right. The plane.
I drifted off again. Five monkeys this time. One sat on my head, one pulled my ear, one used my back as a drum.
BANG. BANG. BANG.
“What is wrong with you people?”
The biggest one stuck out his tongue.
BANG.
I woke up for real.
Someone was kicking my seat. Rhythmically. With commitment.
I turned around.
A ten-year-old girl in pink sneakers stared straight into my eyes.
THUMP.
Next to her, her mother was glued to a tablet.
A Turkish soap opera, judging by the man in the expensive suit shouting at a crying woman.
Giant noise-canceling headphones. The tablet was plugged into a fat power bank wedged beside her seat cushion.
“Excuse me, ma’am. Could you ask your daughter to stop kicking my seat?”
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