[SW6906]

The rest of the column is interesting too.

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......

[SW6906]

Ping!

[al baby]

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

[TommyDale]

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.

[Tzimisce]

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)

[Gefreiter]

Soooo....what, the crux of the article is that people can be a$$holes?

[Centurion2000]

She confronted him; he denied that he had been smoking; she saw his whiskey bottle and demanded it, along with his cigarette lighter.

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?

[oyez]

It makes me sick to see people making air travel dressed like degenerated hippies. I still think taking a flight or even a trip by passenger rail is a big deal and one should dress appropriately. That is just self respect and respect to others.

[PfromHoGro]

The problem with having to go out into public is that...you..have..to..go..out..into..public.

[Windsong]

I think I'm ready for teleportation now.

Only we have to figure out how to block incoming Arab DNA.

[Paleo Conservative]

Someone needs to teach him some manners. Preferably someone about 6'6", 250 pound, and ripped.

[drsbb]

Hello, Everyone:

I usually wear a suit and often a tie when flying even if not on business. People tend to (unconsciously I think) give me a little more space and slack compared to when I'm wearing jeans. I also find a suit to be incredibly useful with all those extra pockets. Now, if they'd just occasionally make a mistake and seat me in first class! Sometimes, though, harried older people mistake me for somebody with the airline and ask for assistance or directions.

[Libertina]

Air travel... like the bus but with smaller seats and more difficult to exit.

[Malesherbes]

All this is, of course, true, and now multiply it by a factor of X as we get 200,000,000 more people in this country in the next couple of decades.

[El Gato]

The thing that hacks me off is all these people who can't stand to wait a few minutes, granted sometimes it's excessively more than a few minutes, to collect their bags, so they carry on a bag big enough for a weeks clothing changes. Then the wonder why there is no room in the overhead bins, the thing being too big, or they have a second item, to fit under the seat. I carry on my laptop and a very light nylon briefcase that was a give away at a conference in 1998. The case holds whatever I think I might need in flight, or wish to look at then, and maybe a few business items, like my memory stick, and some briefing papers. The case goes under the seat and the skinny computer only case goes in the bin. My clothing and the rest of the business stuff, if any, goes into the baggage compartment where it belongs, hence the name "baggage compartment". On the 757 I took to get where I am now, there were people from the very front of coach, and maybe some from first class, putting stuff in the rear of coach, before all coach passenger were boarded.

It really chaps my a$$, and thank you all for letting me vent on that.