Airport Musings

One more thing, because I'm still laughing about this...

Some things about the kid I sat next to on the DFW-MIA leg:

• 16 y/o. With his mom and brother, going to Puerto Rico for his uncle's funeral
• REALLY wanted to sit by the window (I had the window seat)
  
• Flight attendant pointed out that there was an entire row empty across the aisle. Mom moved but whispered to the kid "you stay there" conspiratorially. Oh great, I think. So now there's me in the window seat, awkward teenage kid next to me, a free seat on the other side of him and 2 free seats right across the aisle. Including a window seat! C'mon!
  
• I tell him I had to sleep in the airport and only got a couple hours so I'm going to sleep.
  
• He still apparently REALLY wants to look out the window because as I close my eyes and lean my head against the window, I feel him lean wayyyy over into my personal bubble. I open my eyes slowly, look at him, questioning. He doesn't look at me, though his face is maybe 3 inches from mine, neck craned, gazing out the tiny airplane window.
  
• I push the button the recline my seat and close my eyes again. 2 seconds later my seat pops back up into its original upright position and he tries to put the armrest up. "Uhh, let's leave that down, ok?" "Oh, sorry. I wanted to look out the window" ......
• I'm sleeping... sleeping... sleeping. *Tap tap tap. TAP TAP TAP. "What??" Awkward boy, pointing to my bracelet "are you Catholic?" "Yeah" "Me too!" "Cool" "What church do you go to?" "Um, one in Oregon" "You're Puerto Rican too?!?" "No...?" "Oh"
• Sleeping, again. Kid: "I want to be in the airforce so I know all about this stuff" "oh, yeah?" "yeah, this is a 747" "yeah" "they're coming out with a new plane soon, the 787 or something" "oh yeah. I heard about that. when?" "Oh, I don't really know much about it" ...
• I, having given up on sleeping, pulled out my book. After reading for a good 30 minutes he turns to me "oh, is that a book you're reading?" "yeah..." "oh!" holds up his book "I'm reading one too!" ...
  
• Kid: "Sooo do you have a boyfriend?" "uhh no" "Oh. I was just wondering because sometimes women have boyfriends" "yeah, I guess so" "yeah. I don't have a girlfriend. But I'm going to get one (nodding head)" "ok"
• The Office wedding episode was playing in the background. I'm laughing out loud and then crying. Kid: "are you ok?" "oh, what? me? Yeah, I'm fine. What? are you ok? What?" "Oh ok. Yeah I'm ok. Why?"
  

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Then I sang this song in my head about a hundred times and pretended it was Will Smith sitting next to me, not the kid bound to win the most awkward human ever award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iav_eOcs8