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one day you’ll find yourself dressing for a flight. Take a stand against casualness and wear a blazer. The pockets are handy for tickets and passports, and you

one day you’ll find yourself dressing for a flight. Take a stand against casualness and wear a blazer. The pockets are handy for tickets and passports, and you may as well look good—the person sitting next to you could be single. jesus grandpa, I am an adult woman who has taken many flights while single and lemme tell you, the last damn thing I want to think about while I'm flying is flirting with the dude crammed in the seat next to me, I just want to take a nap and get off this nightmare vibrating stress tube ASAP.

Mistletoe 3y ago
I can't think of anything I would hate more on a crowded hot flight than wearing a blazer.
- noduerme 3y ago
  I imagine that for the author, it goes without saying that one should always fly first class.
- dublinben 3y ago
  The blazer can be removed once you arrive at your seat, and then folded and stowed atop your luggage overhead.
egypturnash 3y ago
one day you’ll find yourself graduating college. Resist the temptation to move home, even temporarily. Force yourself to find a job, live on a budget, and become an adult. ok grandpa, you do know that most college graduates are now saddled with horrendous college loans that are impossible to get away from, and that living anywhere even remotely desirable requires paying increasingly absurd rents, and yes, that includes that charming town you settled in after your grandparents paid the majority of a tuition that was a tiny fraction of what modern graduates are in hock for, even after adjusting for inflation? You also do know that "leaving your parents and living by yourself" has only been the norm for a brief period of time, and that, in fact, living in the ancestral manse is a great way to accumulate and consolidate pan-generational wealth, as well as to share the burdens of caring for the young, the old, and the infirm?
egypturnash 3y ago
One day, when you are old and think of yourself as wise, you will feel an urge to put together a little book of your attempts at advice. You will be tempted to divide this book into sections, with quotes from various dead white men, all of which lack closing quotes to match their opening quotes. Except for one, which has closing quotes. None of these quotes will be multi-paragraph quotes, which is the only case in which any grammar guides suggest unbalanced closing and opening quotation marks. Resist this temptation. Bonus points: Also resist the temptation to decorate the chapter headers with a red swash, that makes them look a pack of Marlboros. Who the hell even smokes any more, grandpa?
danparsonson 3y ago
> ...the last damn thing I want to think about while I'm flying is flirting with the dude crammed in the seat next to me... ...which is your prerogative and another data point to go with the data point in the original article. As a single guy I've personally been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of an in-flight flirtation; not everyone hates flying. I wasn't wearing a blazer though.
- noduerme 3y ago
  I've had a few romantic connections begin on planes and trains, too. I wonder how common it is. There is something to this advice, which is that most people in airports look confused and lost, so looking like you know how to travel and have your shit together, being relaxed, maybe helping people lift their carry-ons and whatnot, can make you seem like someone people find easy to talk to. I do dress well when flying and when in Vegas, but I do it for my own sense of aesthetics and elegance. It reminds me to slow down and hold myself well, and it definitely doesn't hurt when going through customs.

Mistletoe 3y ago

I can't think of anything I would hate more on a crowded hot flight than wearing a blazer.

noduerme 3y ago
I imagine that for the author, it goes without saying that one should always fly first class.
dublinben 3y ago
The blazer can be removed once you arrive at your seat, and then folded and stowed atop your luggage overhead.

egypturnash 3y ago

one day you’ll find yourself graduating college. Resist the temptation to move home, even temporarily. Force yourself to find a job, live on a budget, and become an adult. ok grandpa, you do know that most college graduates are now saddled with horrendous college loans that are impossible to get away from, and that living anywhere even remotely desirable requires paying increasingly absurd rents, and yes, that includes that charming town you settled in after your grandparents paid the majority of a tuition that was a tiny fraction of what modern graduates are in hock for, even after adjusting for inflation? You also do know that "leaving your parents and living by yourself" has only been the norm for a brief period of time, and that, in fact, living in the ancestral manse is a great way to accumulate and consolidate pan-generational wealth, as well as to share the burdens of caring for the young, the old, and the infirm?

egypturnash 3y ago

One day, when you are old and think of yourself as wise, you will feel an urge to put together a little book of your attempts at advice. You will be tempted to divide this book into sections, with quotes from various dead white men, all of which lack closing quotes to match their opening quotes. Except for one, which has closing quotes. None of these quotes will be multi-paragraph quotes, which is the only case in which any grammar guides suggest unbalanced closing and opening quotation marks. Resist this temptation. Bonus points: Also resist the temptation to decorate the chapter headers with a red swash, that makes them look a pack of Marlboros. Who the hell even smokes any more, grandpa?

danparsonson 3y ago

> ...the last damn thing I want to think about while I'm flying is flirting with the dude crammed in the seat next to me... ...which is your prerogative and another data point to go with the data point in the original article. As a single guy I've personally been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of an in-flight flirtation; not everyone hates flying. I wasn't wearing a blazer though.

noduerme 3y ago
I've had a few romantic connections begin on planes and trains, too. I wonder how common it is. There is something to this advice, which is that most people in airports look confused and lost, so looking like you know how to travel and have your shit together, being relaxed, maybe helping people lift their carry-ons and whatnot, can make you seem like someone people find easy to talk to. I do dress well when flying and when in Vegas, but I do it for my own sense of aesthetics and elegance. It reminds me to slow down and hold myself well, and it definitely doesn't hurt when going through customs.