Thursday, October 29, 2015

Take on the worst seat

There is nothing more depressing than getting the seat in the last row of the airplane, the smell of the bathroom fill your nostrils, the seat can't be move back even one inch and when you do eventually land and are ready to deplane it is forty minutes after the plane got to the arrival gate because there are fifty overweight Midwesterners who are grabbing their homemade "I love Robin Roberts and the guy who looks like Michael J Fox) signs
Well there is one more depressing thing, when you fly a B717 flight your last row also means you sit next to the engines which is about as much fun as standing at the speaker of a Rancid concert. The noise is rancid, the bathroom smell is rancid and when you open your window shade you see nothing but the side of the engine which is rancid. So that, my friends, is the worst thing in the world

On no it is not, the worst thing is that when you are sitting in the last seat on the plane with the view of nothing and the smell of everything and as you pull into the runway the announcement comes on that says

"Ladies and gentleman this is the Captain speaking, seems like we have a maintenance issue, should' be too long but we are going to go back to the gate and..."

MLIA

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