A young woman mocked my age at the airport, then spent our entire flight throwing her long hair into my face and food. She thought a 73-year-old woman couldn’t fight back. Good thing I’d made one very unusual purchase at duty-free.

laughed. “See? Ancient history.”

Then the lunch cart arrived.

The flight attendant’s badge said Kelly.

Brittany flung her hair back to take a selfie with her tray, and the ends went straight into my rice.

“Excuse me! Your hair is in my lunch.”

She didn’t even turn. “Then don’t eat it.”

“I wasn’t planning to.”“Problem solved.”

“Not quite. I would like to eat the rest of it.”

“Lady, you’re making a huge deal out of nothing.”

“You wouldn’t happen to have my fork up there, would you? It seems