Hi guys,
I usually don't start threads like this, but I was pretty pissed off on Thursday returning from an overseas business trip.
It had been a long week. 16 hour days starting Sunday. No real downtime. And to cap it off, the airport was a zoo and I was fighting a migraine for the hour I was in line to get my friggin' bag checked. But, I made it to the gate on time, and by the time we took off my migraine medicines (yes, plural) had done their work and I was feeling my body relax toward something like normal function once more, finally.
Remember the medical beds in Star Trek TOS? With the little indicator panel over the head area? All the indicators were center of normal range. I was feeling good, starting to doze off (which is actually pretty rare for me).
All of a sudden I started getting palpitations. I could literally feel my blood pressure rising and could sense the vasoconstriction going on (due to my migraines I have heightened sensitivity to such things). Imagine the TOS medical panel with the indicators all over the place and that pinging sound it made... Could it be the migraine coming back (this would be highly unusual for me)? Heart attack? I noticed I was suddenly quite jittery, but not exactly unwell. What the heck was it?
Then I saw a puff of fog of some sort drift in front of my eyes. At first I figured it was the AC in the plane causing condensation but we were way too high for that. I looked over and saw across the aisle from me a couple in seats A and B glancing around furtively, making sure no steward(ess) was looking, then puffing on their vaping e-cigarettes. Big fog puffs were being blown by the AC system across the aisle over to the center three seats before visibly dissipating.
Seriously? On an enclosed plane? In mid-air? Sending a nicotine fog around the cabin? What is this... 1965?
I was about to confront them an remind them that at least on this airline such activity is strictly against the rules (I'm not sure if it's a law, but they did mention it in the preflight briefing), but just as I was working over my social anxiety, they put away their devices. These were the same rude idiots that were playing video games loudly without headsets earlier. (grr).
Some time passed and my body relaxed back to normal. But then it all started up again about an hour later. I got up to use the restroom, and snagged an attendant. I asked if they were allowed to do that, and the guy told me: "No! HELL NO!" He went over and had a polite but stern conversation with them, while I took care of my own business.
The rest of the flight was uneventful, other than them deciding to watch a movie on their iPhone 6+ with the sound apparently all the way up, but then again that's why I carry earplugs on the plane.
Anyway, there are times I wish I had the gravitas of Samuel L Jackson. I could have confronted them to the effect of "I've had it with those [bleep bleep] vapes on this [bleep bleep] plane!"
OK, ranting about it got this out of my system.
Peace, y'all!
Marc
I usually don't start threads like this, but I was pretty pissed off on Thursday returning from an overseas business trip.
It had been a long week. 16 hour days starting Sunday. No real downtime. And to cap it off, the airport was a zoo and I was fighting a migraine for the hour I was in line to get my friggin' bag checked. But, I made it to the gate on time, and by the time we took off my migraine medicines (yes, plural) had done their work and I was feeling my body relax toward something like normal function once more, finally.
Remember the medical beds in Star Trek TOS? With the little indicator panel over the head area? All the indicators were center of normal range. I was feeling good, starting to doze off (which is actually pretty rare for me).
All of a sudden I started getting palpitations. I could literally feel my blood pressure rising and could sense the vasoconstriction going on (due to my migraines I have heightened sensitivity to such things). Imagine the TOS medical panel with the indicators all over the place and that pinging sound it made... Could it be the migraine coming back (this would be highly unusual for me)? Heart attack? I noticed I was suddenly quite jittery, but not exactly unwell. What the heck was it?
Then I saw a puff of fog of some sort drift in front of my eyes. At first I figured it was the AC in the plane causing condensation but we were way too high for that. I looked over and saw across the aisle from me a couple in seats A and B glancing around furtively, making sure no steward(ess) was looking, then puffing on their vaping e-cigarettes. Big fog puffs were being blown by the AC system across the aisle over to the center three seats before visibly dissipating.
Seriously? On an enclosed plane? In mid-air? Sending a nicotine fog around the cabin? What is this... 1965?
I was about to confront them an remind them that at least on this airline such activity is strictly against the rules (I'm not sure if it's a law, but they did mention it in the preflight briefing), but just as I was working over my social anxiety, they put away their devices. These were the same rude idiots that were playing video games loudly without headsets earlier. (grr).
Some time passed and my body relaxed back to normal. But then it all started up again about an hour later. I got up to use the restroom, and snagged an attendant. I asked if they were allowed to do that, and the guy told me: "No! HELL NO!" He went over and had a polite but stern conversation with them, while I took care of my own business.
The rest of the flight was uneventful, other than them deciding to watch a movie on their iPhone 6+ with the sound apparently all the way up, but then again that's why I carry earplugs on the plane.
Anyway, there are times I wish I had the gravitas of Samuel L Jackson. I could have confronted them to the effect of "I've had it with those [bleep bleep] vapes on this [bleep bleep] plane!"
OK, ranting about it got this out of my system.
Peace, y'all!
Marc