Plane Seat Etiquette
Dec 27th 2013, 8:38 pm
#63
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Or once the final passengers have filed past then dump it in the aisle and/or hand it to a flight attendant as they do their walk-throughs prior to push-back. Or just pummel it with your feet for the whole flight.
Dec 27th 2013, 11:55 pm
#64
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Even better.
After inspecting the contents, of course. 
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Dec 28th 2013, 1:18 pm
#65
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
.... begin your question with, "I'm terribly sorry, ....."
You're sat in the window seat of a plane and need the loo, but the person in the aisle seat is asleep. What do you do?
a) Gently wake them up to ask if they can let you out
b) Risk lasting internal damage by refusing to say anything
c) Cough louder and louder until they wake up
d) Try to squeeze past them without waking them up, but they do, just as it looks like you’re trying to sit on their lap
e) Loo?!
You're sat in the window seat of a plane and need the loo, but the person in the aisle seat is asleep. What do you do?
a) Gently wake them up to ask if they can let you out
b) Risk lasting internal damage by refusing to say anything
c) Cough louder and louder until they wake up
d) Try to squeeze past them without waking them up, but they do, just as it looks like you’re trying to sit on their lap
e) Loo?!
Last edited by Pulaski; Dec 28th 2013 at 1:21 pm.
Dec 28th 2013, 2:17 pm
#66
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Dec 28th 2013, 2:51 pm
#67
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Oh yes there is, for someone who's 6'5" and has nowhere else to put their legs. I can and often do jam my knees against the side rails of the seat in front. When the distance between my hip and my knee cap is the same as the distance between the back of my seat and the back of the seat in front there really isn't anywhere else for me to put my legs! ..... And if they did recline my knees would have to push into the soft part of the seat back .... or I'd be trapped, pinned in my seat with my knees down and my feet stretched under the seat in front. I have had a person complain to the stewardess that their seat was broken . it wasn't!
Just make sure you never fly on Procrustes Airlines - they'd cut you down to size!
Jan 1st 2014, 12:47 am
#73
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Ah progress at work! What would the man on the Clapham Airbus say?
Jan 1st 2014, 7:45 am
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Re: Plane Seat Etiquette
Years ago when I was 6 month preggers with oldest (now 10) I went home to visit as she was my parent first grand child etc, anyhow during the meal the woman infront of me reclined her seat back, the woman next to me told her I was pregnant and still eating my meal, I wasnt really all that bothered until I heard her say (woman in front of me) that is not my fault, I paid for my seat if she needs extra room she should have paid for 1st class or got a letter from her doctor saying she needed to be treated special'. I really wasnt bothered until I heard her reply, she was not nice about it all so out came my 'oh you think you will treat me like that, I am full of raging hormones and I know how to use them' bitchy side... lets just say I made sure she was not left undisturbed or comfortable 
