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Expedia, everyone’s favorite booking hospice for the travel disabled, has decided that you people are annoying travelers. Well, not all of you people, just some of you who were obviously raised in a barn, or were treated like super special cronuts of light and joy. Yes, you led Expedia to commission research to find out which of you is the worst kind of flier out there. Find out if you’re on the list. Continue reading
Mitt Romney has no idea how airplanes work
Speaking at a fundraiser Saturday night about the emergency landing that occurred while his wife was aboard.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no – and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous.”
Your friends want to take a week-long vacation to somewhere warm, with a beach and sand and drinks with frilly umbrellas.
You tell your friends that the trip sounds like fun, and then you think, oh, that means getting on a plane. Suddenly you remember you agreed to take care of Aunt Greta’s Weimariner that week, and you tell your friends, so sorry, you can’t go.
Crasstonians, do you get on a commercial flight, even though the very idea fills you with dread? Do you board the plane, plop yourself down and get your drink on while you hit on the stranger sharing your armrest? Or do you prefer to travel by car or bus or train rather than ascending to the troposphere? Continue reading