Posted on 08/15/2016 6:26:22 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Here’s one more group millennials are ignoring as they spend time glued to their smartphones — airline personnel.
About 61% of millennials admitted to hiding behind electronic devices in order to avoid interacting with airline staff, according to a survey market-research firm Mintel conducted among 2,000 adults. Beyond millennials, less than half of Generation X — those born roughly between 1965 and 1980 — say they avoid airline personnel, and less than 37% of baby boomers said so. Automated technology is increasingly replacing people for cost-savings and convenience, and few travelers still value the human touch in the process.
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Yep, millennials are jerks.
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They don’t get pregnant.
Yeah, Richard Branson gets it. Ever see the pic of him kitesurfing with the naked babe?
LOL, it reminds me of the time I had my car stolen.
I had a 1966 Dodge Dart, a real beater. It was in such bad shape visually, it was one of those cars you would abuse on the outside because it was so rusted and dented there was no bringing it back. (It was my winter car)
But it had a slant six in it, and as long as I threw a can of oil in it now and again, it ran relentlessly. It was one of those cars that started immediately when it was cold, but...when it was hot, if you screwed the pooch and flooded it, you wouldn’t be able to get it started until the car DID cool off.
So, when you stopped somewhere and turned off the engine to go into a package store to buy some beer, when you came out to drive away, you couldn’t give it ANY gas at all when starting until the engine caught, otherwise it would flood and you would be screwed. Being a young guy, I just got used to driving it that way instead of fixing it.
Well, I came out of my part time college job at the university hospital and went to get my beater Dodge, and it was gone. For nearly an hour, I wandered around looking, even though I was pretty sure I had parked in this specific area.
Then it occurred to me: My car has been stolen. No, who would steal that piece of junk? But it is gone. Maybe the emergency brake gave way and it rolled into traffic and got towed. So I went inside to ask Security, and they said, no, no cars had been towed.
I hesitated, then said “I think my car has been stolen.”
About three days later I get a call from several towns over, saying they found my car and it was at an impound lot with the ignition ripped out. It had been abandoned in the parking lot of a 24 hour convenience store, and after three days, they called the cops.
So I went over to claim it and drive it home. I knew how to hot wire a car, so I figured I could get it on the road.
When I walked over to it in the impound lot and went to jump in, I saw the air filter and the carburetor cover all jumbled in the back seat, and burst out laughing. I knew exactly what happened to the car thieves.
They stopped their newly stolen car to go inside and get some butts or something, and when they came out, the car refused to start. The idiots must have been trying to get it started and thrown the filter and stuff in the back seat, and then realized they had the hood up on a hot car in a very public place. They probably realized the path to jail would only be a little shorter if they walked up to a cop and asked him to cuff them!
That car was such a beater, I never even fixed the ignition, I just bought a couple of rocker switches and wired them in. No keys!
“How to write a secret message that a millennial can’t read:
Write in cursive.”
You’re not kidding.
This year alone I wrote three separate letters to three major corporations in cursive and not one of them replied back.
I ended up using the phone to take care of business and not one said they received my letter.
I’m sure it was because all letters were written in cursive.
“Hah! Remember the choke button on the dash...pull it out to choke the carb?”
I’m old enough to remember when “The Weekly Standard” favored Republicans but you must be ancient. I remember chokes but I was a tyke.
That was just a roundabout way of saying some people have diarrhea of the mouth, some get nervous when flying/traveling, and some get nervous when traveling and have diarrhea of the mouth...:)
No excuse, of course, but...I think there is some of that.
who wants to interact with today’s airline personal?...they’re rude, abrupt, disinterested in you, and act like they’re doing you a big favor by being there...
My feeling is that I don’t want to inconvenience others...the other passengers or the flight attendant.
I admit to being a rule follower. If they tell me to turn off my phone, I turn it off. If they ask me to buckle up, I do that too. I figure if they are bending over, asking me questions and talking to me, it is going to distract the people around me. Who can’t help being distracted by a flight attendant asking questions or saying something on a plane?
This is a funny apocryphal story:
A lady driver repeatedly complained that her car wouldn’t run very well. It misfired, it was sluggish, wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding, and drank petrol as if there was no tomorrow. But, every time the car went into the garage workshop and was tested it was found to be fine.
Finally, the garage sent a technician out with the lady to see if they could experience the problem. She was more than happy to comply, if only to get to the bottom of the problem. The mechanic walked out to the car with her and asked her to drive. She settled into the driving seat put on her seat belt, pulled out the manual choke knob to full on, and hung her handbag on it.
It’s one thing to want to disengage from strangers when walking on the sidewalk of major urban areas of the north east or while riding public transportation, but to ignore the flight crew?
sure, I get that.
Probably the case in many instances. I seem to get the people who not only won’t shut up but ask questions that are none of their business.
Then they become ticked off when I politely inform them I would like to read or just relax. Honestly - some of them get outright huffy about it.
Heh heh, reminds me of this video..
Flight Safety - Cyanide & Happiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHooBjxmoXQ
My grandchildren,late teens,early twenties,would never pull a phone out at the dinner table.
Why?
Because their parents made sure that they never did it.
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Um. Have you flown coach recently (to anyone)? You cannot avoid “the human touch” in coach any more. You need birth control just to fly, the way they squish you together with any number of strangers. I hate flying in planes today, even though I love heights and planes. But I hate the lack of personal space these days.
When I fly, I always wear a coat and tie, am always pleasant to gate agents and cabin staff; always thank the flight crew for a good flight. It is a simple matter of good manners. Also I receive superior service even though most times I ride coach. And I hate looking like a stew bum.
Lol!
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