It was really weird - when I travel alone, I guess people I speak to have no choice but to reply to me; when I was with my husband, I went to the counter, like I always do, asked for a gate check tag, like I always do, but the GA didn't have any. Later he got one from somewhere, walked over to us, and handed it to my husband, who hadn't even been at the counter with me.

I absolutely got - I don't want to say better treatment, but more awareness from airline staff when traveling alone. As if they are so stunned that I would do this by myself they decide to help. If I'm with someone, that someone must be taking care of me.

Or something like that. It was creepy.

On the plane, the captain actually came out of the cockpit to lecture my husband on what we should have done better to inform the airline in advance
that I was going to be there - this of course hit another one of my buttons, the one where, I swear, notifying the airline about anything in advance (or requesting anything in advance, like a bulkhead seat) has absolutely no correlation with getting it. Especially aisle chairs. It continues to boggle the mind that United cannot figure out that I need an aisle chair each and every time I fly. Nobody in India seems to even know what an aisle chair is, United can't be bothered to get GAs at the gate more than 20 minutes before departure, my profile says WCHC, and yet somehow, it is my fault that there is no aisle chair ordered.