Since you asked nicely... ;-)
Posted on 05/17/2006 12:27:25 PM PDT by SW6906
The sophisti-yokels are at the gates, C-13 and C-24 to be exact.
The other day, on a flight over the Midwest, a sophisti-yokel – one of those smooth young alpha dogs with semi-expensive suits and implanted iPod ear-buds. Like sophisti-yokels everywhere, he exuded a sense of entitlement, assumed superiority and apparently his mama never taught him manners.
“You call this legroom?” he said, jamming his knees into the seat in front of him. He whipped out a tissue and blew his nose. “This is what I paid 15 bucks extra for?”
Reaching forward, he jammed the used tissue into the seat pouch in front of him. “Stewardess,” he barked before takeoff. “I need a Bloody Mary.” The flight attendant walked past, eyeing him sideways. He yanked out another tissue, honked into it, and stuffed it into the pouch. Throughout the two-hour flight, he honked and stuffed, until the pouch bulged.
It probably never occurred to him that someone else would have to clean up his mess.
Air travel has become the great leveler, replacing bus stations, trains and subways as the one place where Americans are forced to confront people unlike themselves. The people with silk shirts and mixed drinks in first class may seem to be in their own world but look again. See those upgraded frequent fliers?
Then we still have the traditional yokel-yokels, such as the long-haired young guy in dirty jeans and construction boots, who, on another flight, lit up a cigarette in the jet's bathroom, returned to his seat where he sipped from a whiskey bottle. He was immediately sniffed out by a flight attendant. She confronted him; he denied that he had been smoking; she saw his whiskey bottle and demanded it, along with his cigarette lighter. He gave them up without a fight.
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I've seen many a sophisti-yokel on my travels. Related to them are the guys who travel business class in ragged shorts and a dirty t-shirt, treating the attendants like crap. Seen that on trans-Pacific flights where business class costs many thousands of dollars......
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Ya Know its everywhere at the market at resturants The wife and I were at a teppan bar having dinner and some 20 somethings were talking about bathroom stuff very Sad
I was sitting in the airport yesterday and listened to several obnoxious young men proceed to tell everyone within 50 yards how they disagreed with their company policy on this or that, and how they had no confidence in one of their products. It made me want to go ask them for the name of their company, so I could buy stock and sell short. They were merely trying to impress people with their "business savvy" but all they did was make some of look at each other and roll our eyes.
Idiots.
I half thought they were talking about domestic flights.
Well, I guess people would be nicer if they weren't packed in like sardines by Leftist FAA regulations.
Now pay your taxes - we need more government. :)
(/sarcasm)
Airports bring out the asshole in people. I avoid them whenever possible.
I don't think this slogan has quite the same ring as "Fly the friendly skies of United" or "Delta is ready when you are," but it's certainly accurate.
Last year I was on a flight back to Atlanta and sat in front of a guy who was openly bragging about his "business" and supposedly "large home" in a neighborhood of homes worth well over a million. He was talking to the gentleman next to him and mentioned his home's 7000 square feet and many of his business "successes."
After landing I was leaving the baggage claim area and happened to catch this guy getting into a waiting car. The car was a dirty and dented mid 90s Mitsubishi and the trunk wouldn't even close all the way after he threw his luggage in.
It's sad that people feel the need to brag about things they will probably never own.
Probably MLM. Whenever I meet someone who tells me they are VERY successful, they always want me to "get in at the ground level".
Soooo....what, the crux of the article is that people can be a$$holes?
Ditto. I conscientiously practice the Flight Free Lifestyle and am much better off for it. The costs involved in liesurely driving to my destination are more than offset by the benefits I derive from avoiding the numerous annoyances and indignities attendant upon "the Wonders of Modern Flight."
(Will someone please post the picture of the Lockheed Superconnie?) Now that was the Golden Age of Passenger Flight. Men in suits and ties, ladies in beautiful dresses, polite, helpful stewardesses . . . sigh.
Legroom. A thing of the past.
I don't miss flying a bit.
So what? Is having a bottle on the flight against the rules or something? If that is the case, why do they sell bottles in duty free shops before American carriers fly overseas?
Since you asked nicely... ;-)
Those Amway folks REALLY creep me out. It's like a little Kim Jong Il society in a microcosm.
I got a cockpit ride in a Superconnie. :-)
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