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| What would you least like to be seated next to on an airliner |
| An obese person |
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15% |
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| An aviophobiac |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| An alcoholic who won't stop drinking |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
| A chatterbox who can't shut up |
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16% |
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| A parent with a screaming baby |
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56% |
[ 30 ] |
| An ajoshi who eats like a barnyard animal |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| cwemory wrote: |
Someone who is airsick should really be option. The sound of wretching and vomitting trumps crying babies and drunken ajossis everytime.
I spent a very uncomfortable flight to Fiji (originating in Beijing with a connection in Seoul) in front of and behind four constantly sick Chinese passengers wh spent the entire 10 to 11 hours vomitting. I spent the whole flight with my legs curled up, convinced at any moment a river of puke was going to run under my seat. |
True enough. I took a high-speed ferry from HK to Macau and was seated behind two Chinese women who vomitted the whole time. I can't imagine what an intercontinental flight with them would be like. |
In China you would look at the buses in the long distance station, and they'd be streaked with vomit. I recall a few times Chinese women sticking their heads out their window to vomit and I'd see the puke flying past mine an instant later. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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On a flight from Incheon to Heathrow by Thai Air I had a six hour layover in Bankok that runed into 9 hours. I had specifically reserved a bulkhead window seat.
While I was in the waiting room a huge, fat Bangladeshi woman with a tensor bandage on her ankle is allowed to board early with her skinny little husband. She hobbled down the ramp making a great display of pain.
When I boarded I went to my seat. The skinny little guy is in my seat his wife is in the aisle seat and their junk is between them. I said you are in my seat, he called the flight attendant and she offered me a center row seat nearby. I said no. So with great reluctance he moved I settled into my seat and with great moans of pain his wife adjusted herself.
About 1.5 hours later this little *beep* assumes the lotus position on his center seat with his knee firmly implanted in my right rib. Where is stayed fot the next 9 hours. I shoved his knee away and he rang for the flight attendant who evidenced a lack of sympathy for my plight.
On arrival at heathrow I was quite willing to kill the little sh. . and his moaning wife . . ."
The last a seen them was just about when my daughter met me at Heathrow. They were sprinting out of the airport, her carrying her cruntch in one hand and litterally jogging.
My daughter stopped me from going after them. They were simply faking it to get special treatment.
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Has no one mentioned the person with a very weak bladder who has a window seat and is going to the toilet every fifteen minutes. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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I voted screaming baby - that can last for hours. The noisy eating lasts only a very few minutes.
Chatterboxes can be a pain, but Bose headphones generally remove that issue.
An aisle seat tends to reduce the problems anyway. Valium and Melatonin take away most the pain. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Big people are a little bothersome, but if you can get used to being flesh-to-flesh with a stranger for a few hours it's not so bad. I once sat next to this dude who claimed to be an ex-linebacker for some NFL team. We took up about 40% of my seat's space. Very broad shoulders. On my other side was this Asia rat dude (western guy who dwells in Asia for a loooooong time) who didn't stop talking to the football player, talking across me, for almost the entire flight from US to Korea. By far, the talking trumped the space issue in discomfort. |
Arrgh- I had someone talk over me for the length of a flight once. I asked her if she wanted to switch seats so she could speak to the guy next to me. She very sarcastically said, "Oh, are we bothering you?" Man, I wanted to b i t c h slap her so bad.... |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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ME,
Don't sit next to me. I am the worst.
Give me my space. |
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