Woohoo!

What gives?

Dr.: "You need to stop masturbating."

Patient: "Why, doctor?"

Dr.: "Because I'm trying to examine you."

"I'm pretty sure that's illegal too."
"Yeah well maybe after 9/11 when everyone got so sensitive. Thanks a lot bin Laden."

..., on the back of your seat. On one of my trips to Australia, I woke and all I could see was this woman's thigh and legs and feet sticking up from behind the seat in front of me. Her feet were touching the light thing above her seat.

At first I thought "Shit, the plane is upside down" She was about 25

Just curious as to why you thought to include that detail.

...a young teen just acting strange.

Just curious - I wonder if that is common behavior on long flights.

--imm

Ya' nevah know...

--imm

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. (The MSY code comes from its older name, Moisant Field.)

I had one in a bag for a friend and I ate the other half of mine from lunch. I got looks but so did not care.

I really gotta get back there.

Former resident here, if only for a couple of years.

If only an adopted son. It was a blast.

Seats are meant to be reclined, though they shouldn't be fully reclined until the relaxed part of the trip.

Those seats were designed before they crammed so many of them into the planes and should never be reclined in modern planes. You can't do it without crowding the people in back of you.

Seats need to be redesigned or more room given between them. Companies don't want to spend the money on the former and are thinking of even more brutal seating arrangements.

I do try to be mindful of the person behind me. What about long flights (8+ hours)?

You need to get up and walk back and forth to the lavatory line even if you don't need to go.

I can't sleep on my feet. They're getting crowded.

At the very least, ask the person behind you if it's okay to do so. It's the civilized approach.

Since 9/11 they have gotten really strict about standing in the isles. I was actually on a flight from South Korea to Manila and went to the bathroom. By the time I got out the cart was blocking the isle. The flight attendant (actually it was a guy) apologized and I actually said "no, it's not problem I'd rather have a chance to stand for awhile". I also had a decent conversation with him as well which was nice given I didn't really have anything else to do.

It prevents DVTs, something that people who are not used to altitude are going to be very prone to.

I mean 15 minutes in the bathroom and people start to wonder if you fell in.

You don't want to sit scrunched up on the joke of a toilet, either, that's just as bad as being shoehorned into one of the seats. It's the walk up and back that does the good.

But I don't answer myself.

I fly a lot, and it's a major pain in the ass...or lap as it were.

And if you're in an aisle or window seat in a row with three occupied seats, have the decency to let the person in the middle use two arm rests.

entitled to recline. I see it like a seat at a restaurant: you are able and allowed to slide your chair back from the table, but not if it will pin the diner behind you against his own table...

(Caveat and disclaimer: I'm 6'4", so maybe a bit biased on this issue. )

I've had a couple of instances where the person sitting in front of me would recline and I was using my laptop. One time a guy nearly broke the screen on mine reclining.

I fly regularly, and there's something about parents being assholes to their children that can ruin a flight for me. Babies cry, kids get bored. Disciplining is all well and good.

But the way some parents talk to their kids when there are other ears around. It'll bother me the entire flight once it happens.

Last week, 4.5 hour flight from Chicago to S.F. Dad condescended to his seven or eight year-old the entire trip. Sucked up the power strip they shared so he could play iPad games "See? I'm better at plugging things in than you!" (Asshole literally said that). The kid just sat there staring at the back of the seat in front of him with nothing to do. I finally threw some animated stuff on my laptop (The Last Airbender) to give him something to watch while I read on my phone.

Kids will be kids. Annoying sometimes, but it happens. But adults being assholes to kids pushes all of my buttons, and I experience it all the time when flying.

It seems like infants and kids under 5 are harder to take care of on flights. I will usually ask to be moved if it's going to be a problem. I also have earplugs handy as well.

I live in the high desert so that's totally not a problem for me. It's how I live every day.

The only time I've ever "held it" on a plane is when a shit's been coming on and I'll be changing planes in Texas.

Oh, don't look at me like that, I know y'all think Texas is where good people go when they die. Stupid was in the White House the last couple of times I flew east and that made a difference.

within 24 hours before getting on an airplane, especially for a long flight.

In that order.

Knock on wood, I've never been stuffed into a rocket. Being a reluctant astronaut is one of my nightmares.

The best form of transportation is walking. Bicycles would be okay too but for the damned cars. Trains and sailing ships are acceptable too.

In my utopia the speed limit for everything but muscle, wind, solar powered, or emergency vehicles, would be 35 mph.

No worries, vacations would also be long enough to enjoy the ride.

The world really isn't that small, that's a lie. We just ignore all the stuff in between, and that's not good for anyone.