Originally Posted by Seat 1F

This was a first for me after decades of heavy travel. I was at gate 137 yesterday waiting for flight 1279 from EWR to IAH. It was about 15 minutes before boarding and I was standing well back from the actual gate leaning against a post just people watching when I noticed it. A couple were "grooming" their daughter's hair by meticulously going through the hair and scalp and picking things out, looking closely at what they picked out, and then flicking them on the floor. The daughter was say 15-16 years old and this went on for like 10 minutes. Could it have been anything other than a delousing scene?