Air travel hell: Rude ponytail-haired passenger goes viral in Twitter pic - TomoNews

BOSTON — Boston Globe columnist Dante Ramos photographed a rude airline passenger and now the photo has gone viral. Ramos was flying from Houston to Boston after a trip to New Orleans when a long ponytail flopped over the screen of the passenger seated next to him, his partner Ryan. "All of a sudden, an enormous ponytail flopped out from atop the seat in front of him, over the in-flight entertainment screen, and down almost to his open tray table. It broke an unspoken rule of economy class: Keep your coats, extremities, and expansive hairstyles under strict control," Ramos wrote in a column for the "Boston Globe." Ramos and Ryan shared looks of disbelief. The two waited to see if the young lady to whom the ponytail belonged would notice. But as she continued to play games on her phone, either oblivious or simply without care, Ryan decided to speak up. "Barely looking up from her device, she moved her seatback forward, and her ponytail flopped back out of our sight," Ramos wrote. After the plane landed, Ramos posted the photo he had taken on Twitter with a snarky caption: "Congrats to the ponytailed young woman in seat 22B. You've invented a whole new way to be awful at 35,000 feet." The photo quickly went viral. The photo gained over 10,000 likes and retweets, sparking conversations over this whole new way to annoy fellow passengers.