Monday, May 12, 2008

The fight for the emergency exit seats

On most airlines, the emergency exit row seats often offer plenty of extra room either on the sides, legroom or both. I believe airlines should set another restriction to passengers who want to sit there. Passengers who are taller than 6' 1 should get priority to those seats. All the gate agents has to do is pull out some measurement device, either a tape measure or some kind of fixed markings on the Jetway door. It really pisses me off when I see passengers sitting in those seats who are shorter than 6 feet, so much I just want to beat them. They don't deserve those seats. So find ways to annoy them when you sit either in front of or behind them. Consult the last post about annoying passengers in subtle ways part 1.

How to piss off passengers in a subtle way part 1

When I fly, I normally don't need to piss off other passengers unless I got something I didn't want such as a seat assignment in the middle. So here are ways to piss off some passengers in such a way, they think its an accident.

#1 You have a middle seat, but you want that window, when the window passenger arrives, mention to them you are in their way or its too busy in the cabin to move around, ask them if you could just move over to that seat to make an easy seating process. Normally they will almost always say no.

#2 If number 1 didn't work out, its time to be annoying. I use my personal height and size to my advantage. Find out if you have anything that can be used to your advantage. I'm 6' 5 and I really hate those middle seats. I try to spread out continually hitting the other passengers legs and invade their personal space, just to annoy them. I may make the comment, "I hate being tall, but what can you do? " to hide my intentional annoyance.

#3 Those people who recline the seats are very annoying for tall passengers like me. When they try to recline the seat, my legs act like natural anti recliners, the harder they recline, the harder I react. Works every time :)

#4 Last for now, make all kinds of bodily sounds to annoy some people. You need to stand up for yourself and don't quit on things that piss you off. You will never be a success if you let those other people walk all over you. Who cares what those other passengers think of you, fight for yourself and when you do it it subtle ways, magical things can happen.

Electrical devices on aircraft

Sure some devices may cause severe interference but the truth is most of them don't. Ipods for example, I have had mine on several times on an airline and look, nothing happened during takeoff or landing. You just need to work your way around it when the flight attendants come around doing their checks. Only wear one ear piece facing the windows so they can't see that. Allow the cord to fall on the side of the body that faces the window, and have the ipod inside a pocket or hide it under blankets or a jacket. Works every time for me.

As for cell phone usage, like most people I actually agree they need to be off all the time while in the airplane.