I left yesterday for Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fortunately I had a direct flight, and I realize that this is the first non-stop-in-hated-airport-aka-Miami, on the way south of the border that I've ever taken. Its about 10:30 hours of flying, and, as has been my luck recently, I have had little success with next door neighbors. This time, an Argentinian lady, sweet as can be, managed to elbow me, without exaggerating, 300-400 times during the flight. Basically whenever she was awake it didn't occur to her that I might not want her constantly brushing, hitting, and otherwise disturbing me, in my clearly defined seatspace. She went through her purse and carry-on more than 40 times before 1am. And, of course, she was such a nice lady that I couldn't bring myself to say one thing snarky. So,
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