Then Someone Blamed the Mother
A woman in row 19 leaned forward.
“Why didn’t you book seats together?”
The mother heard her.
She turned around.
“We did.”
The cabin went quieter.
She explained that she and her son originally had seats beside each other.
But their earlier flight had been canceled.
The airline moved them onto this flight at the last minute.
Their original seat selections disappeared during the rebooking.
Rachel looked over.
That changed the situation slightly.
At least now she knew the mother hadn’t simply skipped paying for seat selection and expected another passenger to fix it.
But Rachel still didn’t move.
