I would not consider myself a big traveler, but I do end up on an airplane about a half-dozen times a year.
There is something that I see happen on most of my flights, but I never thought it happened on nearly EVERY flight.
I am speaking of the passenger who insists on having a speakerphone conversation just before takeoff.
So Annoying
You see people doing this on the street all the time, but you can at least give them credit for thinking they are in an open space and nobody can really hear them.
When you are on a plane, you have about 200 souls within feet of you, and nobody really wants to hear you argue with your wife because you forgot to put the toothpaste cap on, but it happens every time.
A recent report in the Wall Street Journal revealed that this is not a rare instance, but tends to happen on most flights.
Brennan Smith stated, “At first it irritated me. Then it annoyed me. Then it got me angry. Now I’m just bewildered.”
Smith recommended putting signs up as you enter the plane, and I could not agree more.
Another flyer noted how she sat next down to someone arguing over bathroom towels with his wife, virtually the same argument I had overhead about the toothpaste!
One flight attendant admitted, “I will see it probably every single flight.”
It’s the same when people are watching videos on their phones with the volume on full blast.
What happened to the days of putting on your headphones and keeping your screen hidden so as not to bother anyone else?
The problem is these days, you don’t know if this is someone baiting you to get into a confrontation on the plane so they can become an overnight internet star, so nobody, including the flight attendants, ever says anything about it.
This is not quite as bad as the people who take off their shoes and put their feet up between the seats, which I recently had happen to me.
For that, however, I could not keep my mouth shut and had to say something, which actually resulted in the flight attendant asking me not to be so aggressive. And I agreed… I would not be aggressive if they would take their nasty talons off the back of my armrest.
