But I think my way worked.
The man learned two useful things that day.
First, speaking Spanish doesn’t mean someone can’t understand English.
Second, silence is not the same thing as ignorance.
Sometimes people notice exactly what you’re doing.
They just haven’t decided you’re worth the argument yet.
Was the narrator right to stay quiet at security and wait for a better moment, or should she have confronted the man immediately when he cut the line?
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