I turned to the man and asked, “Excuse me, did you see a guy sitting here... looks a lot like you?”

“No.”

“I don’t mean to bother you, but...”

“Then don’t”

I didn’t know how to respond to that, so I turned back around in my seat.

The clock read 2:30, but I wasn’t sure if that was the time or when the clock stopped working. I looked at my wrist, and saw the discoloration on that denoted where my...