When you recline your seat back …
… in an airplane, do it slowly. If you jerk it back too fast, you not only bug the passenger behind you; you also risk breaking the screen off his laptop which he has placed on his tray table with the screen wedged up against the groove in your seat back because the seats are so economically spaced that he can smell your hairspray, much as he’d prefer not to. So recline slowly please.
That’s right, old woman travelling on FI 631 to Boston this afternoon, I’m talking to you.
And you snored too. It was audible over the engine roar.
May 13th, 2006 at 1:29 am
Oh man! Why did she have to lean on your screen? Now your laptop is your scraptop. I’m dabbling in babbling! Time to head to bed and creep to sleep.
Sorry about your scraptop.
May 13th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
In yesterday’s flight to Seattle, the woman in front of me had some behavioral malady that made her bang backwards against her seat every few minutes, jostling my code all over the place. And the woman next to me had two seats. The middle seat, half of the aisle seat, and half of mine. The memory of the repeated touch of that corpulent arm will haunt me for the remainder of my days.
May 17th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
The post is much better if you skip reading the headline – “In an airplane, do it slowly”