Southwest Airlines Flight 2489

I was hoping for a hopelessly overbooked flight so I could score a $ 300 travel voucher, but there were three empty seats.
Good for me, right? Especially because I sat in the second-​to-​last row and had the middle seat to my right empty until the very end of boarding? Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be, because the woman who eventually sat next to me passed up two earlier middle seats even though she had been reminded over and over that all that was left were middle seats. She ended up not being annoying in the least, but I was waiting for it.
The flight back from Chicago always seems to take forever. I did get a great deal of reading done, and I was comfortable, for the most part. It took forever for our bags to get to baggage claim, for some reason. But my brother was picking me up, so I didn’t have to stress about BART closing just before I got to Coliseum Station.