When Cora heard about her daughter surprising her with business class plane tickets, she was very excited. She had never flown before and knew this would take away a bit of her anxiety. But nothing could have prepared her for what was about to happen on the plane. Because just as the plane was filling up with passengers, one of the flight attendants walked over to Cora and bluntly asked her to leave.
That was something she later regretted deeply…
Cora confusedly looked up at the flight attendant. She thought she had misheard her at first, but when she asked again, Cora could clearly hear what the flight attendant was telling her. “Ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you to leave.” She didn’t even ask to see Cora’s boarding pass…
Cora’s heart began to race as she looked around her in confusion. No one seemed to care about how the flight attendant was speaking to her. It was degrading, to say the least, and it made her feel like she was unworthy of being here. “But I paid for this seat?”