Aside from an unexpected upgrade or being on a completely empty flight, there’s no better feeling on an airplane than an open middle seat in your row. Imagine, then, having that momentary relief replaced by this “waking nightmare.”
Happy waking nightmares, everybody. #especiallyheinous pic.twitter.com/1OVeEuHCTT
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
Author Sara Nović has been livetweeting her experiences on her red-eye flight stuck next to this creepy, full-sized baby doll, and it’s been at turns hilarious and bizarre.
Good news: no person in the middle seat next to me.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
Bad news: terrifying baby doll that belongs to the man in the window seat next to me.
Okay he bought it a ticket.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
The flight attendant is trying to explain to him why he shouldn't put the doll's name on the ticket next time he buys her one.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
Apparently the TSA was frantically trying to match the name and birthrate he provided UNTIL THEY REALIZED…
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
IT'S NOT A REAL PERSON.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
Nović, the fiction editor of Blunderbuss magazine, obviously has a knack for storytelling and details. She needed the backstory.
Some updates. The man is also traveling with an entire bunch of bananas as a snack.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
He is going to Cincinnati to see the giant Noah's ark replica built to spec, and the creation museum. As a matter of course.
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
PS the doll's name is Barbara
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
In a cruel twist of fate, after a two-hour layover, Nović ended up on another flight with the doll, this time sitting directly across the aisle from it.
I'm on her right side this time. In case you need a better view. pic.twitter.com/pXnO0KSIux
— Sara Nović (@NovicSara) September 23, 2016
So much for catching some sleep on that red eye.