It's at times like this

Toby — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:43:00 +0000

... that I feel an overwhelming sadness at the future of humanity.

There I was on a flight out to see my friend over the Easter break when the two seats in front of me were taken by two early twenties girls. There was, of course, the irritating linguistic tic of not being able to reduce the number of ‘likes’ per sentence to below three. There was, as well, an inability to realise that you can talk on an aeroplane without resorting to foghorn like volumes. Finally, there was the following conversation which sealed the deal and made me see red:

Air hostess: Can all passengers please turn off all electronic equipment, including mobile telephones, laptops and personal audio devices.

Plane starts to taxi and I watch one of the pair send a last text and then sit there waiting for a return text to arrive.

Air hostess: Madame, could you turn off your mobile phone please

Girl: Why, like, should I?

Air hostess: Because it may interfere with navigation equipment during take off.

Girl: But I’ve been on, like, ‘planes where they let you, like, use them during, like, flight

Air hostess: You may well have been madame, but I’m sure that they didn’t let you use it during take off and landing and also we do not have the equipment on this aeroplane that will let you use your telephone during the flight. Turn it off.

The girls sighs loudly and turns the phone off and the air hostess walks off, presumably quite glad that she didn’t have to ask the pilot to get involved (which may have escalated to him aborting the takeoff). As she walks away…

Girl: Fascist.

"It's at times like this" by Timbo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:29:43 +0000

What the hostess should have like, done is jump on the PA and announce to the rest of the passengers that the takeoff was going to be aborted and the plane sit on the runway until the extremely rude and annoying pop-tart in 27D turns off her mobile phone.

"It's at times like this" by Adrian Smith

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:36:18 +0000

Ah that’s terrible …....

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It's at times like this

"It's at times like this" by Timbo

"It's at times like this" by Adrian Smith