Golf Writer Stephanie Wei Got Kicked Off Airplane In Bizarre Text Message Incident
By Ty Duffy
Golf writer Stephanie Wei had a lengthy stream of tweets about how another United passenger got her kicked off an airplane in a bizarre incident, involving someone reading her text messages. The beginning of her story is embedded below. Read all of it here.
Dear passenger in 22D @united 2020: u spent 20 min reading snippets of texts over my shoulder, interpreted em incorrectly, made flight.. /1
— Stephanie Wei (@StephanieWei) October 21, 2016
...attendants treat me like a terrorist Bc of what you thought u read. Then u told cops I was taking painkillers?? It was BENADRYL!!! /3
— Stephanie Wei (@StephanieWei) October 21, 2016
Then you told flight attendants I was crying when I was sniffing from allergies. Maybe if u just asked me if I was ok, u woulda said I was
— Stephanie Wei (@StephanieWei) October 21, 2016
And best of all, because you rudely read my personal texts over my shoulder, you had me removed from the plane which was humiliating.
— Stephanie Wei (@StephanieWei) October 21, 2016
United did get Wei on another flight, albeit in a middle seat at the rear of the plane.
Nope. I am middle seat in the back. https://t.co/fbAQjU2Xpy
— Stephanie Wei (@StephanieWei) October 21, 2016
Sending text messages in public may soon join “emailing” on the list of things one should no longer do in 2016.