#Dreamy days in west tokyo stuck in loop full

He whined and whimpered as he boarded, and he whined in the bulkhead row near the front of the plane where he and his owner sat. He was supposedly a service dog (or one in training). You don’t have authority over me.” They were almost body to body in the cramped area near the lavatory, and Veronica feared the girl was about to hit her, before one of the coaches intervened.įinally, the German shepherd. The girl, who was about 5-foot-10 and towered over Veronica’s 5-foot-2 frame, said: “I’m so sick and tired of you, bitch.

When the girl got up to go to the bathroom, without a mask, Veronica asked again.

#Dreamy days in west tokyo stuck in loop full

The girls kept removing their masks when they talked to one another, and Veronica, who was working the back of the plane near the girls, repeatedly reminded them: “Please put your mask on.” (She and most other attendants asked me not to use their full names, either because an airline’s media policy does not allow them to speak without permission or for fear that doing so might hinder their employment.) “Please put your mask on,” a girl mocked Veronica each time she said it. About a week before, it was a group of young female athletes. ‘These masks don’t work.’ Then he threatened to punch her in the face. ‘Who do you think you are, you liberals?!’ he screamed at her. A week or two before the dog, a middle-aged man reacted belligerently when, just before he boarded the plane, Veronica asked him to pull up his mask. He was Veronica’s third ‘unruly passenger,’ as the Federal Aviation Administration calls them, in one month. It was the German shepherd in Row 4 that finally pushed Veronica, a flight attendant, over the edge. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.