So here we go, how to be the best flight buddy you can be.
1) If you're a nervous flyer, please take some ativan and don't talk to me.
I understand you are stressed I do. Flying thousands of feet above the ground is not exactly a secure feeling but please PLEASE don't make it known to me you are nervous. I will in turn get nervous and then freak you out more and it will just be an escalating fear for the next 3 hours.
2) If my headphones are in, that means we are in a no talky zone.
Seriously. I'm probably not interested in what you're saying, I'm more interested in watching Frozen again for 100th time even though I know all the words. If I knew the conversation would be short, I would gladly listen but I am not prepared for 4 hours. Thanks bye.
3) Watch your elbows
Ok sir we are shoulder to shoulder here, I know. But can you please not keep your elbow on my volume ajduster thingys on the seat. I am just trying to watch this movie and you keep changing the volume on me and I can't change it because you're elbow is in the way. I also have said this to you a couple times and you are still doing it. HANDS IN FRONT OF YOU.
When I was coming back from Florida two years ago, I ended up sitting next to this man who had just gone to Las Vegas. He was old and nice and everything, but I knew from the moment he sat down I was not going to enjoying my book anymore. He showed me 420 pictures (on his new ipad he got because he signed up for a new cable bundle) of the Grand Canyon. I don't even need to go visit it myself, I've seen it.
He also then proceeded to tell me he wrote a book about Newfoundland and he writes for a paper. And it ended weirdly 2 hours later when he asked me to send him a picture of myself when I graduated. I'm sure he had the best intentions, but I just wanted to enjoy my book and a nap.
Do you have any plane horror stories? Or have you managed to escape the talkers?
I never do it seems. Let's find out what happens on my next flight come october.
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