Posted on 01/14/2015 3:45:48 PM PST by EveningStar
I have been on 23 hour flights where half the seats have been removed to tie down crates of live chickens and pigs ans I find people more annoying.
I know a little German. He is right over there. -——>
Gark!!
I would have said the 300 lb. Black Woman who sat right next to me. Fortunately she was funny and pleasant.
The one I really remember was the petroleum engineer who sat beside me from Tulsa to Atlanta.
He lectured me about petroleum products all the way and surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole trip. The subject is a lot more interesting than one might think.
Loved them both.
Is this the Potato Farm?
At least you had a girl.. i had a Japanese teenage guy...same thing sleeping on my shoulder ..last center row A 380 from Taiwan to LA... and a 80 year old Indian that smelled of garlic, curry and diarrhea
Picard brought peace to the galaxy! Kirk just slept his way through it!
The trick is to learn one sentence in some obscure language, Finnish perhaps. Then when your seatmate tries to start a conversation, just shrug your shoulders, look sad and say "En ymmärrä sinua".
In 2002 I had to make a commercial trip to Chicago, then Seattle and Back to SJ. That was my last trip in a commercial plane stuffed to the gills with sick, slobbering and rude people - all who think they are the only ones on the earth.
One thing I can still remember is how the minute the plane came to a stop every one jumped up and started grabbing their junk out of the overhead bins so they could just stand there in aisle and wait. It was stupidity on display. I've often wondered why the FAs don't stand in the front, ask everyone to stay seated and exit two or three rows at a time.
Anyway, I pledged to never get in one of those disease infested sardine cans again and I'm so far making good on my personal promise. Anything I care to see in the good old US of A can be driven to, or I don't need to see it.
Me, too. On my last flight (from Orlando in November), I sat next to a couple of tax accountants on their way to Chattanooga. We talked about pets.
At least Shatner can joke about it himself.
I REALLY really can’t wait until they start doing SURCHARGE for excess weight. Petite should fly for cheaper, not so much gasoline to get your fat rear end to the next terminal. I HATE having to give half of my seat to some LAP OVER run into overflow into the ajoinging seats, or having to sit sideways. Make them purchase first class and charge them 40% more for airfares. I did find when I went Amtrak and Greyhound that the more OBESE folks chose this way to get around.
Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy - I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy.
Worst one I ever experienced—a flight from Chicago to Boston—A sick kid in the seat next to me, and of course, the plane was completely full, so I couldn’t sit elsewhere.
Naturally I caught whatever the kid had and was sick for 3 solid weeks. Yuck!
Usually pretty lucky here, too - recent trips have been beside an Army chaplin now posted at the Pentagon with some great stories, a famous physicist who invented PET CT cameras and a strong conservative from Charleston who wanted to talk politics the whole trip... When I don’t want to talk I just put on headphones.
I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.
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