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Are you the chatty, don't know a stranger type who will talk the ear off your seat mates?

Or are you the earphones leave me alone type?

 

I used to be the social butterfly, talking with anyone who didn't look otherwise occupied. But I realised on one flight when I just wanted to sleep that that is kind of rude. I mean, the chick wouldn't leave me alone, sucking at my natural good manners to get a response.

So how do YOU behave on those long flights and how can you tell when it's okay to address that stranger whose elbow is shoved in your ribcage?



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  • the_infernal_optimist said on Dec 29, 2007....
    I'm the frazzled "OMG, I'm flying with two kids and they're behaving - I know this can't last forever" mom who tries not to envision how much the other passengers hate me on sight when I show up with a toddler and an infant. :-D I generally leave everyone else well enough alone unless they start talking to me first.

    ~Infernal
  • quietone said on Dec 29, 2007....
    oh I am the one curled up with my head vibrating off the window trying to sleep...with the kid in the seat behind me kicking it every 2 seconds!  I very seldom talk...I nap.
  • TinSoldier said on Dec 29, 2007....
    I almost never fly. I can probably count the number of times I've flown commercially on two hands and still have fingers left over.

    That being said, just like in real life, I don't generally talk to strangers. I do, however, loving sitting next to the window and staring out into the sky. When it's daylight, anyway. And when there's windows.

    I used to want to be a pilot, and I enjoyed bumming airplane rides from the small local airport when I was a kid.

    Not anymore, though. Heh, is it sad even that if my kids were in similar circumstances that I probably wouldn't let them fly in small planes with people that I really didn't know?
  • paidinblood said on Dec 30, 2007....
    I'm definitely the earphones leave me alone type.  Unless the person has something totally interesting to say I just pretend to listen with an apparently blank expression.

    PiB
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 30, 2007....
    as a rule, i'm the "piss off and leave me alone"-type. however, b/c IRL i'm the kind of person that people cant help talking with, i've formed acquaintances with complete strangers.

    however, a helpful trick in disengaging from undesired conversation is to ignore the other person completely and feign sleep. or perhaps radiate murderous fury--that one will generally get you all the room you want, i've always found.

    ed
  • paidinblood said on Dec 30, 2007....
    radiate murderous fury -- Great idea! Maybe I'll try that sometime. XD

    PiB
  • Expendable said on Jan 09, 2008....
    I just stare silently at people until they give up.

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