He sat beside me, expensive watch flashing, posture stiff, breath full of impatient sighs. You know the type — a man who thinks inconvenience is a personal injustice.
He snapped.
“For the love of God, can you control that child?”
The words weren’t whispered.
They weren’t gentle.
They were a public execution of my dignity.
Heads turned.
Eyes shifted.
I shrank — not because I agreed, but because sometimes humiliation makes you physically smaller.