20 rudest things people do on planes
Air India (not pictured) is considering an 18-hour nonstop flight between India and San Francisco. Think you could sit in one of these for 18 hours? Maybe. Till everyone else shows up. Jerkiness may be in the eye of the guy sitting behind you, but there's usually no shortage in the skies. Click through the gallery of 20 top irritating behaviors in the skies.
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You folded your suit coat nicely and placed your hat in the allotted overhead space. Too bad Bin Hog just mangled it all while shoving his suitcase, stroller and shopping bags into a space meant for one personal item.
–20 rudest things people do on planes
Airplane movies: opiate of the flying masses. Except when your hyperactive neighbor takes 30 minutes to decide between "Grown Ups 2" or something a little less cerebral.
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The fidgety leg-shaker isn't all that common, but still annoying when encountered at altitude.
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Most airlines have a system for getting hundreds of passengers aboard in the least amount of time. That's why we schlep on as part of Group A or B or C. Just because you drew the short straw on this one doesn't give you the right to pretend to be dyslexic.
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Are we really blaming babies for doing what babies do naturally? Sure, as long as they're your kids, and not ours.
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"I'd learn some bladder control if I was in the window seat," runs the unspoken complaint.
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"Hey, we just landed. ... can you hear me? ... we just landed ... I'm on the runway ... can you hear me now? ... We just landed ... "
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We get it -- airlines have cut back on food service, forcing us all to bring our own snacks and meals onboard. But did you really have to clean out the back of your refrigerator?
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"Hey, we're trying to read here!"
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No one wins when elbow wars begin.
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Praise God, the middle seat is empty! Til the guy next to you lays claim to the no man's land of the middle seat with a book, coat or inflatable neck support.
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Thanks for sharing your globules of diseased saliva. Not you, of course. Or this considerate (paranoid?) gent.
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Bleep, bloop, blorp. Funny how some of the most irritating things on the planet can be called "games." Even more irritating are people who play them, on a plane, with the sound turned on.
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"Sir, is that a ... carry-on?"
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Here we've regressed to the time before the invention of the queue.
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Toenails are also trimmed at 30,000 feet, but that would have been a reallyoffensive picture.
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Appalling side note: people who actually go to the bathroom on the airplane in their bare feet.
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We've all encountered the toilet hogger. What are they doing in there, you wonder as you hover cross-legged by the door. Certainly not being considerate of others.
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Seat designers, listen up: No one likes the recline button! Time to reinvent the airplane seat.
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"He kicked my seat-back." The top airplane irritant sometimes invites a violent response.
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