Dear NN,
I will be traveling abroad shortly, for an onsite assignment. I have heard lots of stories about flight journeys, which make me bit worried. I tend to get bored soon, and am not very good at judging people. What am worried is about getting into a conversation with morons. If I get to know if the person sitting next to me is a moron, I would not talk to that person and maintain a dignified silence all through the journey or pretend to be asleep. Please help me by giving some tips on how to find if the person is a moron.
-Aero.Smith, Indira Nagar, Bengalooru
Dear Aero Smith,
I understand your plight, since I have been in the same position quite a few times. It is actually quite simple to find if the co passenger is a moron. Here are somethings which only morons do. So, keep looking for these symptoms.
*At the boarding gate, Airline companies generally make a pre boarding announcement. That will be atleast 15 minutes before the actual boarding begins. If someone gets up from the waiting area during the preboarding announcement and gets into a line, you know that person is a moron. Infact all morons get into a line the moment when there is a preboarding announcement.
*Airline companies try to board the passengers in a sequence. But irrespective of the sequence no, the morons will try to get into the flight as soon as possible and rush towards the boarding counter. Whereas, normal human beings look at the boarding gate and get back to their book or music player etc till the crowd clears.
*By the time you approach your seat, if the people already seated there ask you ‘Is this your set?’ you can be rest assured they are morons.
*If the person next to you says any of these things ‘So, where are you going?’ or ‘Are you going to Bangalore? (Where else will be a direct flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore go?) it is a moron.
*If a person is still talking on a cellphone within the flight with earth shattering statements like ‘Ok. I am inside the flight now. Take care. Bye’ then that person is a moron.
*Some morons, get up from their seat even before the flight departs and try to loosen their trousers(in public) and do some acrobatic exercises like vijayakanth. And worse, smile at you while stretching!’
*There are few nutcases who ask for drinks, even before the flight departs. And the funny thing is, they ask for sprite!
*If someone hits your elbow thrice in the first fifteen minutes of the flight, keep away from them.
Finally, a normal person will have their book, music player etc to entertain themselves. And they will try to sleep for the reminder of the journey. Unless there is some emergency or some need(Like you stamping on their leg, or if you are leaning on their shoulder) they will not try to talk.
Ohhh…Aero Smith seemed to had a flight-full of morons!!!! Except for the last one, I agree with u all the mentioned points…y cant agree with the last one? Becasue I wasn’t that lucky yet…
Really Nice One!!!
Cmon prabhu.. I beg to differ on the fllwg points: (and I am neither a moron nor am I defending the actual ones)
*If a person is still talking on a cellphone within the flight with earth shattering statements
*There are few nutcases who ask for drinks, even before the flight departs. And the funny thing is, they ask for sprite!
Cmon prabhu.. I beg to differ on the fllwg points: (and I am neither a moron nor am I defending the actual ones)
*If a person is still talking on a cellphone within the flight with earth shattering statements –
Could be a business person, who received an official call from some moron!
*There are few nutcases who ask for drinks, even before the flight departs. And the funny thing is, they ask for sprite!-
People get thirsty or they may have air-phobia (i dunno wat the term is) and so these fizzy drinks could help them
Good one.
hahaha!!!!!!! v good one prabhu.. thoroughly enjoyed it!! couldnt control laughing alone in office
Good One Prabhu . I saw a “moron” on a flight. He asked for 2 bottles of some alcoholic beverage. The hostess gave him the 2 bottles after unscrewing the lids. He asked her for the lids saying that he wanted the bottles as souvenirs. She politely told him that as per FAA regulations they do not provide bottle caps. Also the beverage bottles/beverages cannot be taken off the plane. After she left, he emptied the contents of a bottle in one go. Tore sheets off the in-flight magazine. He then stuffed the torn sheets over the open mouth of the 2nd bottle. After that he hid the bottle with the beverage inside his coat pocket. I hope Aero Smith does not meet this “moron”.
LoL. Ain’t the flying experience just fabulous? All sorts of idiots in the same place…
i completely disagree with some of ur statements
*If the person next to you says any of these things ‘So, where are you going?’ or ‘Are you going to Bangalore? (Where else will be a direct flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore go?) it is a moron.
mabbe that person was visiting his family in india and wanted to talk to them….y even while i m travelling within the US my parents call me to find out if i have boarded and if everything is fine
*If the person next to you says any of these things ‘So, where are you going?’ or ‘Are you going to Bangalore? (Where else will be a direct flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore go?) it is a moron.
why cant that person’s final destination be chennai or some other city? u dont want to talk dont talk, dont call them a moron.
*There are few nutcases who ask for drinks, even before the flight departs. And the funny thing is, they ask for sprite!
i always feel thirsty before and after boading…i dunno y. everytime i board the first thing i do is ask for a cup of water….feeling thirsty doesn’t make one a moron does it.
i m sorry to say this but sometimes u r really rude…
Don’t know whether all these are true. I have never travelled in flight and hence don’t know whether one should remain silent or keep to herself during the journey.
But so far in buses, trains and in cars… I somehow get into a conversation with the person sitting next to me and manage to make friends too.
What is your say on this? Why not take that the person sitting next to you is actually an innocent person trying to be friendly and not a moron?
As someone who spends most of the time flying – (the poor road warrior clan!) , few comments from my side.
Beware of person
* who checks what is his seat position after entering the craft and blocking an entire line behind him – What he was doing in the waiting time
* who gets the middle seat and asks the aisle seat fellow to change – Over my dead body buddy
* who thinks the other guy is moron when other person asks where you are going – Dont we know the destination. What we are meaning is the destn is transit or final destn
* who hits the call button soon after seated – wait man
* who tries to go to loo when people are still boarding – hey, there are loos in airport man – use them
* who safely stows away the courtesy toileteries – use it man. u wont get rich by saving
* who pushes back the seat as farther away as he can – dude, this is economy class
…list goes on
BEWARE!BEWARE!!BEWARE!!! the final one
* who is a Amway guy – Nothing worse than this.
Doell,
Prabhakar,
ramize_27,
Why cant the business person switch off the phone or set it into an offline mode when they get into a flight?
And when I said about drinks, I meant when the flight is taking off. Air hostess is not an angel to fly and serve the drinks right? Cant a person hold on to their thirst for 10 minutes?
Murugavel,
chitra,
Purni,
Oh god!!
Merino,
So true!
Visalakshi,
Err. Okay. Why cant you call your parents before you board the flight? When the airline rules have clearly mentioned that one should not use mobile phones within the flight, why is it that people don’t care to respect the rules? God forbid, if something happens to the flight due to this who is responsible? And aren’t air hosts human beings? How can they serve you when the flight is taking off? They don’t have wings right? When I said even before the flight departs, I meant the time they display those safety information and flight is about to take off.
And maybe I was rude. I was highly irritated with my copassenger who kept bugging me. I mean, why does it matter to him/her where I go? I didn’t want to talk. Gave several hints. But the person did not stop. Trust me. You don’t want a talkative person next to you on a 9 hr flight. I guess you have been lucky enough to have good co-passengers, and that is why you are not able to understand the plight of people like Aero smith and ofcourse me
And why does it matter to anyone, where I am going?
Bindu,
Will you initiate discussion with someone who looks very tired and has closed his/her eyes and trying to sleep?
The probability of person being innocent is quite less
Jam,
Ha ha. Thank god, I wasn’t stuck next to a Amway salesman or insurance agent. Phew!
And I have a standard set of replies for people who ask me where I am going. I say ‘Am going home’ or ‘Am going to work’
They keep quiet after that.
I accept all the points stated by *Jam* . Even i dont prefer initiating conversations while travelling. Be it train, bus or flight.Some morons are so curious that they dont stop with : where am going ? They proceed to ask if my destination place is my native or the source was my native. Why am going ?
Rubbish conversation. Even after trying hard if i am not able to avoid this, i’d begin giving fake identities.
Infosys is always a safe option to tell it as your working place. They cant track me among 75k employees.
Ha, mine was worse. It was an empty flight and there were about 10 Gujaratis spread around me trying to talk each other from each corner. This happened for about 2 hours. Then, the guy sitting next to me took out a packet of Pan Parag and started chewing voraciously with the fluid dripping out of the sides of his mouth. Then…. He dug in the front seat flap, fished out the vomit bag, spat the “paan” into it, sealed and put it safely back in there. I am sure talkative co-passengers are better than having such co-passengers.
i dunno how it is in india but in the US u are allowed to use ur mobile or any electronic device until the steward asks u to switch it off. i guess its the same everywhere in the world. every1 has the right to speak…even if they did the airlines has the athority to ask them to switch it off….i dunno how it bothers u when someone is minding his own business.
yes hes a third person and need not know where u r going…. its just a common way of starting a conversation…even i wud be annoyed if i were u…but calling him a moron is way too harsh.
if a passenger is asking for a drink its the stewardess’s problem.
Ferro.. Total Damage panraanga pola iruku
Nothing wrong in making smalltalk. After all in a flight journey that extends for 9-10 hrs, it is only courteous and friendly in getting to know people and seeking good company. And if you are the kind who thinks reading a book or listening to music are the ideal things to do in a flight, then mind your own business. Why does it bother you when someone’s speaking over a phone or ordering a drink. Stop judging people and calling them morons.
Prabhu, sorry, this is one thread with some ‘disagreeable’ points. Rather i agree to everything mentioned in Jam’s post.
First timers or aged people who dont know much about pre-boarding announcements tend to hurry up. Elderly people who find it difficult to hear such announcements try to get in quickly before others. Namma naraya dhadava travel panniyirukkomngradhaala theriyadhavangala Moron’nu solradhu konjam overa illaya?
Also, in Indian flights the ‘normal human beings’ you have mentioned is a minority. If u dont get in quick after the boarding announcement, u wont find a place to keep ur cabin baggage.
//Airline companies try to board the passengers in a sequence//
Air-India or Indian Airlines doesnt follow this practice. We just hear an announcement asking passengers with ticket# 16 to 30 board first followed by 1-30. Vera yendha sequencum illa!!
//*Some morons, get up from their seat even before the flight departs and try to loosen their trousers(in public) and do some acrobatic exercises like vijayakanth. And worse, smile at you while stretching!’
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Bestu..:-) In fact, there are some who adjust the overhead a/c light switches as soon as they get inside. I have observed this in flights/volvo buses. One person adjusts the fan and everyone seated behind follow suit.
‘By the time you approach your seat, if the people already seated there ask you ‘Is this your set?’ you can be rest assured they are morons.’
I dont understand whats wrong in asking this?? May be that person is travelling with their better-half/anyone who has got a seat somewhere else which they want to exchange with ur seat!So they ask u as soon as u r in.!
Well, if u call a person as moron just becos they talk to u ina 9+ hr journey, then I would call U (who doesnt talk) as ‘head weight/thimir pidicha***/bandha party’..Howzat!
hahahahaha… sila per ippadi varuvangha… they wont stop talking even if you pretend to sleep… a to z sollanum namma pathi…
Prabhu,
I enjoy many of your posts.
In this specific post there are quite a few I disagree with.
Deepak has stated it quite nicely.
Moron is too strong a word for some of the points you listed. I can agree with one or two, but overall very harsh post.
Maybe you wrote this in real bad mood, so this generalization and over harsh post.
Hi Prabhu,
I use to browse through this blog and I enjoyed most of the topics covered/discussed here.
But I beg to differ in this topic. I don’t think I would agree to a single point that you have mentioned as meaningful (I am sorry that I have to say this).
Moron is quite a strong word to use. I think the persons who are trying to portray as “Morons” are actually First-time-travelers (It would have been nice if you have written some funny comments about them calling them as “freshers”).
But this sounds too harsh. And I think you have started thinking like “Whatever I say people would treat as funny and I have great sense of humor”.
Sometimes your sense of humor may look crap to someone. Would it be correct if they call you as a “crap”. You might say that you don’t mind it. But what I am trying to say is these are not the sort of words that you could use here.
I am sorry if any of my comments have hurt your feelings. But I just wanted to make a point that you shouldn’t hurt someone’s feelings either.
Having said that, I enjoyed my time reading through all the topics and would continue to do so (if you are ready to accept what we say as constructive).
Cheers,
Vijay
i personally liked the aerobic stuff.
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as somebody said, mostly the firsttimers rush in to get in to the line.
similarly even the question, where do you go too doesnt qualifies to be a moron? logically it doesn’t fits, may be u dint get a straight flight to chennai!
i guess what you wrote was just for fun and why to take all this things very seriously.(may be i too got in to the mode of analyzing the post as mentioned in the deepak’s last comment
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