Mesh back hat
We are on a plane from Haneda to Matsue.
The guy in front of me is bald but wearing a mesh cap. It irks me. Not only is it a fashion faux-pas, it is a killer sunburn waiting to happen.
I can't see much of the woman beside him but she has great arms, and the longest slenderest fingers anyone has ever had. Every time she touches her screen, I hold my breath, fearing her fingers will break. They are like dandelion stalks pressing on a glass prison.
She starts playing candy crush, or something like it. She has to manipulate coloured blocks on her phone into gaps between other coloured blocks. I don't think she is going to be able to do it, how can one manipulate anything with a handful of dandelion stalks. But the blocks keep falling into holes and exploding.
She taps the screen, and I wince. Mesh-sunburn takes a sharp breath. But the fingers don't break.
"You worry about that sun burn, dude," I say, leaning forward and whispering into his ear. "I'll worry about the fingers."