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Also Bose noise cancelling headphones and a pair of sunglasses. As long as they don't smell, you can ignore everyone.
Right on.
My Bose noise cancelling headphones worked wonders for me on a transatlantic flight a few weeks ago. I was able to practically ignore the young woman sitting next to me. She was a sweet girl, but had been to India learning yoga techniques, and she had dreadlocks down to her waist. Honestly, they looked so nasty, even though she was clean enough herself. But when she fell asleep, those awful dreadlocks began to encroach into my personal space - and then she started scratching her head IN HER SLEEP - incessantly!!!! I was about to crawl out of my skin!!!
So I closed my eyes and put those headphones on and did my best to ignore the heeby jeebies sitting next to me.
I was a Flight Attendant for a few years, and now I fly pretty often as a "normal passenger". A few things that really get me are:
-When we're desecending and a passenger feels that that's the perfect time to go use the lav. Some Flight Attendants will lock the lavs below 10,000 ft. Nice idea.
-After we land and we're not at our gate but waiting for the ground crew or if another plane is occupying our gate and the pilot gets on the PA and says that we haven't gotten to our final parking position to please leave your seatbelt on and stay in your seat. Even after that you here the "click, click, click" of the seatbelts.
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I solved the problem and bought a Piper. Now the rudest thing that happens is air traffic control asks me to wait for an airliner to land so the vortex doesn't flip my little plane upside down.
I solved the problem and bought a Piper. Now the rudest thing that happens is air traffic control asks me to wait for an airliner to land so the vortex doesn't flip my little plane upside down.
Bought me a 182 two years ago. Time to spare? Go by air. Unless you've got your IFR.
Teenagers with headphones so loud you can hear the music... worse when one of them is flailing his arms, snapping fingers, and bopping around in his seat like he's at a rock concert
Someone passing flatulence next to you... ok, maybe once, accidents happen... but nonstop? BLECH!!!!
I solved the problem and bought a Piper. Now the rudest thing that happens is air traffic control asks me to wait for an airliner to land so the vortex doesn't flip my little plane upside down.
Confession here, something I just remembered. I was one of those "idiots" once. When removing my carry-on from the overhead I hit a man in the head, and boy was he pissed. And rightly so. I apologized sincerely and couldn't look at him after that out of embarrassment. Later in the terminal I was hoping to see him so I could offer to buy him a cup of coffee or something, because I really felt badly for him. I never saw him again.
Flying to Israel on El Al and there were many Hasidic Jews. In the middle of the night, most people asleep, they started walking up and down the aisles praying, wearing prayer shawls. I was sitting in the aisle seat asleep and they hit me in the face with the ends of the shawl as they walked by, which naturally woke me up and startled me. No apologies, just kept on walking and praying.
They also had to face west or something at sunrise to pray, so they all congregated just by the lavs and blocked everyone from getting to them while they prayed. The FAs did nothing.
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