Part 3

When the woman sat upright, she didn’t notice anything.A few minutes later, she reached into her purse and accidentally dropped a fifty-dollar bill near my feet. She leaned down between the seats, searching for it.I saw the bill lying beside my shoe.She reached farther.Then she suddenly looked up.Her expression changed completely.

“Where is my hair?” she shouted.Several passengers turned around.The woman grabbed the back of her head and realized that her hair was noticeably shorter. She immediately accused me of cutting it.“I didn’t cut anything,” I said.“You did something to my hair!”The flight attendant arrived and asked what was happening.The woman pointed at me angrily.“She stole my hair!”The attendant looked confused until I pointed toward the seat-back pocket.