eyes widened. Then she covered her mouth to keep herself from laughing.
“Mary, are you seriously going to do that? You’re incredible!”
I smiled.
In less than a minute, everything was ready.
About forty minutes later, Linda woke up, stretched, and stood to go to the restroom.
She had taken only three steps when a man sitting across the aisle looked at her and burst into loud laughter.
Then another passenger started laughing.
Then several more.
Even the flight attendant stopped in surprise.
Linda looked around angrily.
“What’s so funny?”
Nobody answered.
She looked down.
Her face immediately turned bright red.
Then she spun toward me and screamed:
“WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?”
But at that exact moment, something happened that suddenly silenced the laughter throughout the entire airplane…
I remained calmly seated, watching Linda.
On her left foot was a bright pink children’s sock I had taken from my handbag, and attached to the sock was a small paper note.
