{"id":22736,"date":"2025-12-07T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:17:29","slug":"i-refuse-to-let-the-passenger-next-to-me-treat-me-like-a-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22736","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Let the Passenger Next to Me Treat Me Like a Toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s not the turbulence that makes a flight unforgettable, it\u2019s the people sitting next to you. That\u2019s exactly what happened to Tara, a 32-year-old passenger who wrote to us after an awkward encounter mid-flight. What began as a quiet trip quickly turned into a silent standoff over a movie screen, and ended with a twist no one saw coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to share this story with you because I honestly don\u2019t know if I did the right thing or if I just had a moment of in-flight pettiness.A few weeks ago, I was on a 9-hour flight to New York. No space, bad coffee, the usual. I decided to pass the time by watching an action movie, Bullet Train, on my tablet.Next to me sat a dad (let\u2019s call him Derek) and his little boy, maybe seven or eight. The kid was sitting quietly, totally sweet, but every now and then, I noticed he was watching my screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it\u2019s not the turbulence that makes a flight unforgettable, it\u2019s the people sitting next to you. That\u2019s exactly what happened to Tara, a 32-year-old passenger who&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":205,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}