Top 5 Annoyances on Flights Often Experienced by Air Travel Passengers!

If you've been on a flight enough times for the initialYou can't have been on a flight where there wasn't
euphoria of being airborne to have worn off, thenat least one precious little angel crying its lungs out
you will truly empathize with my list of Top 5for no apparent reason. Flights and bawling babies are
Annoyances on Flights. Here's the list:like strawberries and cream. I suspect most babies
The Topmost Terror: Clueless Co-passengersare wise enough to realize that it's sheer stupidity to
Few of us can afford the serenity and luxury of apay money to be suspended mid-air with the other
business class cabin, bereft of certain kinds offour annoyances and that's the reason they make
unpleasant passengers. There are some people whotheir displeasure known. Cooing parents will stare you
find it necessary to become voluble at high altitudesdown if you so much as think of protesting. Mothers
and insist on making conversation with you even ifreally ARE clairvoyant.
you politely express your disinterest. I once met aThe Fourth Frustration: Flak for Food
lady travelling for the first time who was dealing withFrequent flyers often complain about the food
her nervousness by telling me all about her vastserved on flights, and with good reason. Not only
family tree and her recent recovery from an eardoes it require immense focus to set one's cup of
infection, until I pointedly told her I wanted to gettea/coffee down on the groove in the table, but
some rest. She didn't take the hint until I asked theyou're also on tenterhooks when the air hostess
stewardess for earplugs.leans across to pour a scalding hot beverage into
Other irritating passengers peacefully fall asleep andyour co-traveler's cup. All you can do is watch in
leave you awake, thanks to their loud and unabatedtrepidation. Any solid food is inevitably tasteless or
snores. Still others are oblivious of causing discomfortworse, rancid. Any attempt to carry your own food
to others because of their propensity to itch, scratchis met with reproachful looks from the pretty cabin
or stare. And I hope you never encounter one ofcrew. The babies seem to have it good, don't they?
those inebriated passengers who invariably occupyThey don't have to consume anything that passes
seats that make it necessary for you to get up andoff as food on flights AND they get extra candy and
let them pass every time they need to visit themollycoddling. Hmmph.
restroom.The Fifth Fun-killer: Minimization of your moolah
The Second Scream: Space WarsYou may be flying economy class and dying of thirst
This has nothing to do with aliens. It is a constantbut that won't prevent your friendly flight attendant
game of push-and-pull with the people in the seats infrom over-charging you for that tiny bottle of mineral
front of and behind you. One of them will lean backwater. Or you might want to indulge in
to rest just as you decided to use the food tablecomfort-eating because of the other four
while another has stretched out his legs so far thatannoyances but then find that the packet of chips is
you can see the tip of his shoe peeping out frompriced at no less than the final bid at an auction for a
under your seat if you just glance downwards.famous artist's final masterpiece. Well, that bottle of
Sandwiched thus, you plead for help, only to facewater or packet of food has been caught traveling
disconcertingly blank stares from the cabin crew andwithout a ticket. Who's going to pay for its airfare?
those in adjacent seats. Add to that the horror of anWho else but the beleaguered traveler for whom it
aisle seat, with attendants bumping into your funnyhopped onto the aircraft in the first place? You, of
bone every time the food trolley goes by. And youcourse!
thought window seats were coveted only for theNow you know why I smirk every time I'm told to
view they proffered?"have a pleasant flight!
The Third Tyrant: Bawling babies