Fernando Mexia, the pen.
It is undeniable that statistically flying is the safest modern means of travel, but no doubt also the most uncomfortable, but about that no official reports or studies brainy. Provided prior to arriving passengers sites accept a variety of abuses that start from that one sets foot in the airport and ends ... well, you never know when they end.
I speak, of course, the hell of economy class. How ugly the thing is there even a medical syndrome that bears his name. I know no other means of transport current in which, accidents apart, the customer assumes the risk to get to your destination with a pathology.
A plane is a hostile environment. A long corridor crowded seat in which one learns the value of a centimeter, that you always need to be comfortable. Flanked the gateway and the usual crew greeted smiling, the picture is dismal. Start an obstacle course to reach the assigned site dodging juggle travelers to upload their heavy hand luggage to the trunk. The "Tetris" to adjust the belongings of the passenger in the cab deserves a separate post, but I just say that is a result of restrictive policies and conflicting ridiculous billing airlines. Nobody in their right mind would play halterofílico be on a plane or take a hand kilos and kilos of books and other items while flying useless if not for how things are.
Anyone convicted of moving in tourist knows that bill is a guarantee of problems. The best one is wasting time at the airport, but it is usual to lose luggage occasionally or arrive broken. This only happens with the airlines, or on the train, or bus, or on a boat and much less in a taxi. To make matters worse, companies are starting to charge for bulk billed, a free service so far. One might think, "If you receive will be charged any extra compensation": No. Before they lost the case for free, now costs money.
In this world of hand luggage I am one more. I more or less has been dressed with multiple layers of clothing to an airport to avoid overweight luggage. On more than one occasion, I hid under a heavy coat on his arm to pass the test of the scale prior to shipment. Then everything went back to the bag. I've always wondered why only weigh packages and not the people, probably because it's ugly, but more than once I heard people thin that they would be entitled to raise more kilos on the plane that obese people. Of course, and according to that system, they were right.
Torture seat
The seat is in police court. Not only are narrow, uncomfortable day is long. These backup drives, the fabric lining grimoso, the plastic tray higadillo adjusted level ... and that fight for the armrest with the passenger next to me. It is the war for space and no one wants to give up, especially when the journey is long. If the aircraft is equipped with individual screens, it's your lucky day, and if you have played in the hall, you know you're privileged. Make no mistake, window is fine for short runs but when it passes from the three or four hours there is no better place than the side that faces the hallway, a synonym for freedom. You get up when you want, stretch your legs and occupy part of the area with knee and elbow. As I say, you learn to appreciate every inch like a conquest.
Everyone complains about the food from the plane and I'm sure the airlines have not removed the "catering" for fear that you rise up the passage. More than the taste, the food is fundamental because it keeps the passengers entertained and up their glucose levels, it reduces anxiety and dissatisfaction. Also, if you opened the season for everyone to carry their homemade delicacies, booths would be filled with stench and Tupperware, sauces and substances of all kinds. What was missing.
Thanks to minimalism aircraft you learn to eat like a contortionist and develops an elasticity unknown and would probably be unable to play in another situation. Anyone who has had to pick something from under his seat during a journey, you know what I mean. One immediately recognizes a teacher in these arts dignified air of "Cirque du Soleil" when he sees someone recovered a packet of salt skill that went to the ground as he has displayed tray full of food and coffee. In what other circumstances would subject us to this torture for a piece of chicken curry we do not even like?
Robin
Beyond changes in temperature, engine noise and bathrooms Rinconeros, most terrible of flying is the rest of the passengers. Yes, other. Interestingly, rather than the passage in developing a sense of solidarity plan "economy class comrades," the most acute survival instincts primary and one tends to see the neighbor as a nuisance. It is the natural response to an environment that forces us to increase our levels of tolerance to extremes. This is what has to travel like sardines. In no other means of transportation succeed both earplugs and eyeshades, all by isolating themselves.
The rejection of neighbor is intrinsic to the air traveler and begins with the wish that no one occupies the squares adjacent to the selfish sentmiento "all the space for me", you put you hair like hooks at the prospect of having a baby near (very cute it is and however much you like the children) as it is almost a guarantee that a high decibel llorera is the soundtrack of the flight, and it is annoying that people feel like going to the service when forces to mobilize an entire row. As a "Murphy's Law," which more often pisses you are sitting further away from the corridor.
Another chapter would be claims ground staff once the aircraft lands. These workers seem taught to fault the tired and angry passengers, but underneath are some more victims of dislocations of the companies and have to eat the users insufferable nuisance complaints by some egregious abuse because of a decision made by an officer of airline ever to fly in tourists.
# 1 by Mary on 25/11/2009 - 23:19
that great sense of humor. I had not happened to me: I laughed before eight o'clock. thanks! and yes, the contortion of the tray and the food displayed above ... is an art.
# 2 by Conchita on 27/11/2009 - 9:15
After telling us wonderfully these uncomfortable realities experienced in aircraft, your pen makes the comic look at. You're a phenomenon. Realism and, says Maria, a sense of humor. Conchi.