Revolving doors can create awkward moments. But Robert “Bobby” Abtahi, a Dallas solo practitioner, first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Iran, didn’t know how much awkwardness could come from a revolving door encounter until a VirginAmerica crew barred him from taking a Nov. 30 Dallas-bound flight because of just such an encounter he had with a crew member at La Guardia Airport in Queens, New York.

The incident led to a sequence of events that splattered Abtahi’s story all over Twitter and in The New York Times.

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