While I was flying from Florida to Arizona I experienced some of the most awkward encounters I’ve had in a while. I also realized that the most awkward thing that can happen during a plane ride is to write a blog post about strange things people do on planes while the person sitting next to you is reading over your shoulder.
The awkwardness begins before you’re even on the plane. I thought Zone 1 meant I got to board first? Nope, let’s let anyone who is traveling with small children to go first. It would all be fine if the small child and one parental guardian boarded first but small children travel with a bigger entourage than Justin Bieber.I enjoy the window seat because I get to have a nice little headrest if I want to sleep but it brings on two horribly awkward situations. The first is when you want to put the armrest down and the person next to you looks like a cast member from The Biggest Loser before the weight loss part. Now you have to spend the entire flight with no personal space barriers. The next awkward encounter comes when both people sitting next to you fall asleep and you need to use the restroom. You can either do the awkward arm poke to wake them both up or sit there in pain because you have to pee. Let’s face it, most of the times you’ll just sit there counting down the seconds until the flights over because it’s weird to touch someone you don’t know…which incidentally makes the flight last 10x longer.
The only thing worse than having your plane neighbor fall asleep is having them watch whatever your watching on your laptop over your shoulder. This isn’t a movie theater so unless you’re providing popcorn keep your eyes forward.
Planes can be awkward, that’s why the planes with your own personal cubicle is the way to go….what’s a casual $5,000 plane ticket anyways? You can’t put a price on comfort.
