Poolman: Air Flight Annoyances

Poolman: I took a trip recently that involved a couple of airlines and a regional service or two. Here is my take – they are all pretty much the same. Delta might give you the entire can of soda while US Air might only pour a little cup full, other than that, there isn’t much difference. The thing that I find most annoying… more annoying than the fat guy sitting next to with a quarter of his body flowing over into my seat, more annoying than the giant sweat rings in my face as a guy spends 5 minutes jamming his oversized suitcase into the bin above my head, more annoying that the woman sitting two seats over eating a day old McDonalds fish sandwich with extra tartar sauce right after a 5:30 AM takeoff, more annoying that the hospital waiting room smell of stale coffee and recycled air … No, the most annoying thing about air travel is this – the stewardess that walks up and starts jabbing me in the shoulder before take-off. “Excuse me sir, you will need to turn off your headphones.” Full post below .

Question: Poolman introduces this comment by saying that the service provided by most airlines is pretty much the same. Do you agree?

wanted to post on the Northwest Air thread yesterday but didn’t get a chance. I think the question was – “….pilots overran the airport…will you fly Northwest”.

I took a trip recently that involved a couple of airlines and a regional service or two. Here is my take – they are all pretty much the same. Delta might give you the entire can of soda while US Air might only pour a little cup full, other than that, there isn’t much difference. The thing that I find most annoying… more annoying than the fat guy sitting next to with a quarter of his body flowing over into my seat, more annoying than the giant sweat rings in my face as a guy spends 5 minutes jamming his oversized suitcase into the bin above my head, more annoying that the woman sitting two seats over eating a day old McDonalds fish sandwich with extra tartar sauce right after a 5:30 AM takeoff, more annoying that the hospital waiting room smell of stale coffee and recycled air…

No, the most annoying thing about air travel is this – the stewardess that walks up and starts jabbing me in the shoulder before take-off. “Excuse me sir, you will need to turn off your headphones”. I’m blissfully sitting there wearing my Bose noise reducing earphones, eyes closed, almost asleep, enjoying the tranquility of a little Yanni and suddenly - wack wack – “Sir – you need to turn off your earphones before takeoff, I can see they are on by the little red light”. Lady – how about you get that hideous smelling fish sandwich that is making half the plane want to vomit out of here or maybe you could move this fat ass three rows back where there are two empty seats next to each other or maybe you could find an overhead bin that will actually hold this sweaty bastards suitcase. NO – you have to wake me up and put me in the same miserable headache rendering condition as the rest of the trolls on this plane. How about you gracefully allow me block out the fact that I am about to be launched 30,000 feet into the air at 600 MPH in an aluminum can build with parts supplied by the lowest bidder that is being controlled by men that are so addicted to porn – err checking schedules on their laptops that they forget they are even flying a freaking airplane. Lay off the earphones – that’s all I ask