Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Flying, part 1
In the past, I've had the odd scallywag of a flight attendant try to throw some humour into the largely pointless waffle that comprises the safety briefing (a trip to San Francisco was particularly entertaining, ending in the obligatory "Shift happens" line). I say pointless because of all the things it doesn't tell you what to do, it's things that will actually save your life in the unimaginably unlikely event that if you really need to leap out of the plane after it's crashed AND you've miraculously not been sliced to bits AND you haven't been burnt to a cinder AND you are still conscious AND able to breathe. Did you know that most people have trouble undoing their seatbelts after a plane crash because they reach to their side as if they were in a car? No-one ever tells you that. This is a little light-hearted prequel to the post that I am only now, three months after the event, getting up the strength to be able to write in a new series entitled "Customer Service in America" or "I have your money already, now fuck off". Note that even though I have the strength, there are many days worth of writing ahead of me. Labels: Airline, Flight Attendant, Humour | ||
