[Enrique]

Your story about being offered a seat in front reminds me of another anecdote:

I was doing the short flight from Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua to León, Guanajuato. I was 16. I was traveling with a friend who was traveling with his dad, we were going to Guanajuato to some math olympiad classes. It turns out that a celebrity was on the airplane, his name is Mario Bezares, he is a comedian. He was sitting right behind us. The flight attendant came and told him he could go to the business class section. The father of my friend decided that if Mario Bezares deserved special treatment, we deserved some too. So he got up and explained to the flight attendant how his son and me were representing the country in an international math competition (not true, it wasn't yet known what the final cut would be). We were actually moved to the business class. It was fun.