Maybe this isn't as bad as the time I sat next to that guy with a prosthetic arm on a long haul flight, and he kept prodding me with it to ask me questions.

But fake arm or otherwise, it's the prodding to ask questions I really take issue with.

Like this guy. Shoulders McElbowson. Who was crossing into my territory of the arm rest barrier the whole flight, and passed the time by randomly prodding me to ask questions.

Like where I was going and if I was a student and oh, you're going there for work, what is it that you do, are you from Singapore. Umm. Clearly, monosyllabic responses and a dramatic show of annoyance at removing my earphones were not big enough hints that I didn't care for the impromptu conversation.

And why also did he have to wait till I settled in to go to the bathroom each time? I wouldn't have taken it personally if not for him obviously choosing not to go the three times the guy on his other side got up.

He perhaps took me for the friendly sort when I helped find his earphone jack. But it was only because he kept flapping the arm rest up and down like he was trying to extract water from a well.

Just call me Miss Approachable.