Don’t Eat THIS on the Plane
by John Wilson
(Edit on July 23): Chow (dot) com took my comment down linking back to this article. Very nice and community like.
I just read an article about “What not to eat at work” (previously linked) at chow (dot) com. This article explains discusses all the of the pungent and bothersome foods your colleagues heat up and consume in cube farms across the country. This article inspired me to recount two stories about folks and food on my recent travels:
Watch your coffee: I was sitting in the bulk head of an MD88 on the aisle to the right as you’re walking back to your seat. A lady, blabbing with her telephone jammed on her shoulder, was carrying a Starbucks coffee in her left hand (away from me) and dragging her bag with her hand closest to me. Sure enough, as soon as she hit the economy section her bag jammed into my knee causing her hot coffee to spill all over the guy in the row across from me. He was ticked – and the girl apologized, barely, and kept right on yammering on the phone. Had it been me, I’m not sure how I would have reacted, but it probably wouldn’t have been pretty as I’m typically headed to a client meeting.
Raining Sprite: Yesterday morning, on the way to Philadelphia, a woman set her 20oz bottle of Sprite in the overhead bin while she rummaged through her bag for a magazine. As she went to put her overstuffed bag in the bin she must have tipped the bottle (I didn’t see this, I’m assuming). She also must have not cleaned it up because as we began to take off, the gentlemen sitting in the aisle seat a few seats behind where she spilled her bottle received a Sprite shower. This was easily the maddest I’ve ever seen anyone on an airplane that hadn’t been sitting on the tarmac for 3 hours.
Either of the two incidents above could have been avoided had the passengers followed a few of my airplane etiquette rules… or just some common sense.
Parker looks like he’s enjoying the peaches or sweet potatoes. Yummy!
He enjoys the process, but the first bite he always makes a Mr. Yuck face.
seriously? seriously! we need to clearly close the borders to charleston if we are letting these kind of irresponsible, inconsiderate types in. hopefully they were flying back to wherest they came … never to return!
PS – never heard of chow.com and will now never read it. thank you for the tip on how jerky they are!
I was flying out of ATL both times.
There’s too much sugar in my caffeine system.