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Cruel. Unusual?

Joe Doakes, formally of Como Park, emails:

I recently took a full flight from Fort Myers to Minneapolis with children crying and puppies whimpering. The only thing different from a converted South American school bus is the rooster.
 
 The puppy is not angry, it is frightened. I so wanted to confront the woman: “Why do you have a frightened puppy on this airplane?  Because it’s your comfort animal?  Really? It comforts you to terrify puppies?  What kind of monster are you?”
 
Joe Doakes
 
I’m just happy when nobody brings a goat on board, TBH.
 
Also: they should allow people with no overhead storage to leave the plane before everyone who has to spend five minutes leisurely digging around for the dorm fridge, they stowed overhead starts futzing about.
 

 

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    Bill C

    Also: they should allow people with no overhead storage to leave the plane before everyone who has to spend five minutes leisurely digging around for the dorm fridge, they stowed overhead starts futzing about.

    Agreed. Another simple change would be to load the plane from back to front. Sure the first class people can currently get seated easier, but then they have to deal with 10 minutes of people parading by them and banging into them with their carry-ons. Let the back of the plane load first, then the middle of coach, then the front of coach, then first/business class. They should also deplane front to back, not everyone making a mad rush.

    Personally, when the seat belt light goes off for the last time, I just sit there and keep doing what I’m doing for another 10 minutes until most of the crowd has cleared out (unless I have to make a connection with a short layover).

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