h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Why is it that I always end up sitting next to the bloke who snores, dribbles, farts and talks endlessley about bollocks?

Ooop! I just realised I am in the window seat looking at my reflection!

Oh well!!
Never mind!!

Business travelers are tortured because they deserve to be. Anyone who has ever been forced to sit next to one of these assholes on a plane knows what I'm talking about. They'll push their laptop computer onto your leg. They'll hold meetings with their colleagues seated five rows ahead. Or worse yet, they'll engage you with insipid conversation about their pointless and trivial work. They fuss and whine about everthing, and they need to be instructed more than once that their computer is screwing up the communications and radar equipment, and "could you please turn the damned thing off long enough for everyone to land in one piece, than you very much?" I'd suggest that all business travelers should be forced to be put in kennels and loaded into the cargo hold, but that would be unfair to the animals.

Hmmm, I do think you're generalising a bit more than any traveller deserves, be that business-traveller, pleasure-traveller, time- and universe-traveller or whatever...

I think you can find travellers completely unaware about what to do, what NOT to do, how to behave and how to utterly and most efficiently irritate this guy in the next seat just about anywhere.

Being one of the ACEs I also would like to say that in general, H2G2 discussions tend to be in a bit of a nicer language about other people, please...

Having said that, I'll agree with you, there are scores of people who absolutely think that the only thing that matters in this world is their well-being and/or feeling important.

- As the guys (sorry, but it almost invariably is guys) who deliberately ignores boarding calls by row order so that they can block the corridor at row 2 in order to get seated quickly while everybody else is delayed. I mean -- do they think it's a first come, first served seat allotment...??

- Or passengers with a trolley, a computer case, a coat and a duty free bag looking positively insulted when it's suggested to them that they restrict themselves to one piece of cabin baggage... (ehrm - these are probably most often found among business travellers)

- Or passengers who simply do not understand row numbering and insists that they are sitting in the right row. I've seen people with tickets for row 20-something insist that row 5 was the right one. You find these people in theatres, too, I guess...

Then there's airline people, but that's another story entirely...

Agreed. All I want to do is get from 'a' to 'b', and I'm tired of jerks who (probably unbenownst to them) making my morning (afternoon, evening) miserable. The one thing on my mind tomorrow is "Where in Calgary can I buy a good winter jacket?" I don't want jerks interrupting my breakfast with complaints about service. RAGE should be preserved for 'passenger vs passenger, and let the airlines just do their job.