Disclaimer: I'll be the first to agree that this is not the worst vacation ever, but it sure was a disturbing yet amusing end to it. I was 19 and flying home by myself from Hawaii and had to connect in San Francisco before continuing to Burbank.

Upon boarding the plane in SFO I found a little boy sitting in my assigned seat. There weren't too many people on the plane at the time and he was all by himself, so I assumed he was either playing around or just was hiding from his parents. I nicely asked him if I could have my seat, and with a bewildered look on his face, he moved.

I was soon confronted by a woman that I can only describe as a skank, and I'm sorry to use the word.

She had the little boy in tow and in a very nasty, loud voice, told me I was in the wrong seat. I took out my little boarding pass stub and confirmed it was indeed my seat. She also had the same seat on her ticket, as I could see. Another skank joined her, evidently her sister, and another skanky woman and a goth man, all whom started bitching me out too! A flight attendant came over and after hearing what was going on, quickly ran off to see what happened.

Here's where it gets fun. This questionable quartet now begin to recruit other passengers against me. The people in the row behind me start yelling at me too, telling me to get out of this poor little boy's seat! Or they start saying stupid things to them and the flight attendants: "kick her out!" "throw her butt down on the tarmac!" All kinds of things, and I'm just an innocent bystander, an innocent young woman who isn't doing or saying anything to offend anyone! It was an amazing study of mob mentality; I even realized that at the time. How could these people side with them I wondered, when we BOTH had the same seat assignments and so no one was at fault. I would have been happy to move but I had heard the flight was full.

Within five minutes the entire back of the plane was allied against me and a woman in the opposite row was the only one who's not making trouble - she is talking to the skank who started the mess (and whose boobs had fallen out of her dress during her tirade) and trying to calm her down. So I assumed this helpful lady was on my side, until she commented something like "wait 'til the stewardess comes to kick her ass out."                                                                              

This continued in the same vein until the flight attendant came back after what seemed like a LONG time later, obviously perplexed, and asked to see all our boarding passes. As the first woman begins to hand hers over, she does a double take and screams at her husband in her Boston accent: "Jackie, these were for the last flight!!!" And they start to argue loudly as they search for the right stubs and go to their proper seats, all of them sneering at ME the entire time! They were way up front but I actually think I heard them fighting throughout the entire flight.

So needless to say, the back of the plane was entirely silent from that moment on, but no one ever apologized or said anything to me. When we disembarked the plane not a single passenger who had joined in the melee would look at me, either. I could tell they were really ashamed so that made me feel slightly better.                                                                              

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, but I could certainly do without these types of trash (the skank family AND the equally guilty rabid passengers who threw in their lot in with them). I'm glad they all ended up looking so stupid. But I sure do feel sorry for that poor little boy. If these are the types of people who are raising him, he's going to have serious problems when he gets older...