My two daughters and I were the last people on a Southwest flight from Dallas to Salt Lake with one quick stop at Albuquerque. Southwest Airlines does not have assigned seating. There is a single middle aisle with 3 seats on either side. Because we were the last assigned to get in the plane, only single middle seats were left and they were scattered throughout the plane. My 18 year old daughter with the killer curves and waist long blond hair took the first seat available while my 7 year old and and I walked towards the back .. hoping to find seats together. There were none. I put her in a middle seat by herself and she started to cry a little. She was afraid to be sitting by herself between two unfriendly executive men. I was 6 rows behind her in another middle seat. Because she was so upset, I asked the passengers beside her and those beside me if one would be willing to change seats so that she could sit by me. That would have required someone to change from a window or aisle seat to a middle seat. They all said NO. I texted the situation to my older daughter and turned my phone off for the flight. It was the quietest flight ever. The guys on either side of me knew that they had behaved like jerks. There was no conversation. Just tension.

In Albuquerque, the guy with the window seat in my row left, and my little daughter came to join me. A seat across the aisle also opened up. My older daughter started her way down the aisle with guys turning their heads to stare. She was and is a knockout.

She sat down in the seat across the aisle from us. The first man who had refused to move was now between us. This guy was in his mid 20’s. I could see him processing the beauty sitting across the aisle from him and getting ready to attempt a conversation. Then I spoke to her. And he realized that she was related to the little girl and the mom whom he had refused to change seats for. And there was no chance he was going to be able to save this situation in any way. Here was a beautiful girl whom he really wanted to hit on ... and she already knew him as a heartless jerk.