William: thank you.

SLR: yeah, it really just pisses your Republicans off when you can’t force the rest of us to live by your stupid rules, doesn’t it? Rules which, I dare say, you seldom feel the need to follow yourself. Get over it.

G the Jett: didn’t get thru college, no professional job, and now fantasizes that “businessmen” are holding fanciful conversations on cell phones just to make others jealous. Puh-leeze.

ALWAYS.

PS. Don’t like commercial air? Go get a license and buy your own plane.

Have you ever sat on a plane and heard the mumblings of a man in the middle of a floss? The constant moaning
that he is enjoying that thin strip of floss to an embarrassing “climax”?

The distinctive sound of toenail clippers and you then turn around to see a man with both shoes and socks off blissfully ignorant of everyone else and sending toenail shards flying within a four foot radius of his seat?

I have.

So laugh away at my comments – I still stand by them.

I, on the other hand, will laugh with Neal and the thought of the man in his 60s doing a brain message for an entire flight. At least he didn’t eat them!

Ground, I do agree with your comments about the mobile phone. Why is it that people talk louder when the plane is on the tarmac?

I agree that it is better to sit near a fussy baby than an adult who doesn’t know how to behave in public or observe basic social customs. Within the last week, I’ve had the following experiences while flying:

1. On an AA flight from DFW to LAX, a man in his 60s across the aisle from me picked his nose literally for the entire flight. I mean he never took a finger out of his nostril except to look at it. I couldn’t turn my head to the left without being forced to see it.

2. LAN Chile apparently doesn’t require its flight attendants to bathe. The stench of two male flight attendants was so foul that a woman sitting next to me held a napkin over her face whenever one of them came by.

We had crying babies too but I would have traded places to be next to them.

Forgive me for cutting in your conversation with sedagive, but I couldn’t help laugh at your comments. First you condemn those who floss teeth or cut fingernails/toenails. Then you say you’d rather be next to a baby than somebody who feels personal hygiene is optional. At the very least, isn’t flossing a part of personal hygiene? I guess fingernail/toenail cutting would too. You confuse me.

I’d much rather listen to a baby cry than some attention seeking self proclaimed business leader/doctor that thinks random people will go home and wish they were as important as he is.

Plus too often I seem to be around doctors in the terminal pacing around talking loudly so the whole gate can hear them solve their latest dilema. Can’t we go back to the days of people being tethered to the phone by an 8 foot cord?

Let me see movie, transportation – you got me.
A movie and an airplane are two completely different animals. A terrible comparison.

I have over 2 million miles on American and I promise you the ratio of obnoxious adults to crying babies is about 4 or 5 to 1.

Let me tell you what is rude – flossing your teeth, flatulence, overly perfumed women, clipping your fingernails and/or toenails and body odor, etc…

The list is long but distinguished.

I would rather have a crying baby next me (thanks ipod) than someone who feels that personal hygiene is optional.