I have several important observations. First, generally around the world, you get an assigned seat. It is not like the system in US cinemas and inter-city shuttles where you get to pick your seats. Under these circumstances, what is the necessity to form a mile-long line even before the boarding announcement has been made? We clearly descend from sheep, not apes. Apes would be having a party, disrupting things and throwing feces at the counter staff.
Likewise, after landing, there is the de rigeur ritual where everyone gets up and stands around the aisle, as if they all miss their rugby scrums. I sit till the line starts moving and then interject myself - if you were sitting behind me, then you shall walk behind me, jostle all you want. It may be justifiable in the case of the handful that have a tight connection, but please do not tell me everyone is in a rush to get somewhere at 11 pm on Saturday and the 35 seconds saved in rushing up the aisle would make a difference to their lives.
Lastly, there is the ritual of checking your boarding pass at the door of the plane. Did they not get the circular that, short of a mandatory cavity search, the average airplane traveler, on multiple occasions, gets photographed, his boarding pass scrutinized, his lighter confiscated and forced to buy fluids after passing security for the past several years? Your colleague just checked my boarding pass and passport at the gate, and 50 yards later, you need to see it again? What exactly will happen? Do you have a problem with squatters? Perhaps you are so stupid with math that you will not pick up that there is a stowaway during the takeoff headcount?
Idiots, all.
2 comments:
Hahahaha.... you wrapped it up. All the parts of air travel I hate. Bloody eejits. I was recently hauled up and questioned over a bottle of "Moroccan Rose" perfume in my hand luggage. I didn't even know it was there.
After being forced to spray it on myself, and the security officers spraying it on themselves, I was given the 'clear signal'.
KNNCCB!
~div
i've always contemplated why people kind of rush to queue when the flight starts boarding.
i figured it's because people tend to bring so much redundant carry-on luggage they want the best spot to stow them.
but what do i know. i saunter in once everyone's gone, find my seat, pop a nytol and wake up at my destination.
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