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you having to work on an airplane is your problem. if you HAVE to work on an airplane, ensure you can do so by getting a business class seat or better. by faili

• always_good 9y ago
  There's such little etiquette in airports and airplanes that it's a good opportunity to vent a little rage at everyone else. I think it's healthy. Like Purge Day in that movie "The Purge". For example, how everyone stands up immediately as soon as the plane lands. Someone 5 rows back managing to depart before you because you remained seated until it's your row's turn, but they have one of those oversized carry-ons and can't even get it down. So they essentially cut in front of you just to make you wait on them. Don't want anyone to be any less miserable than I am while traveling. It would unfairly deprive them of a great character-building experience.
  • palimpsests 9y ago
    Alternatively, the amount of stress and tension amongst the collective in airports and airplanes is such that I think it's a great opportunity to practice being more compassionate and human with each other, versus "venting rage at everyone else" - to let someone else go first in line, to clean up after yourself and maybe the past couple of other people who used the airplane lavatory before you, to take a couple of breaths and slow down before ripping into the airline counter agent for some real major or minor inconvenience. I completely agree that learning how to healthily express anger is extremely important, but I don't think we need to seed more misery amongst each other than what is happening by default already.
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