Originally Posted by dat4life

We were among last passengers to board. My first impression was… red. Everything was red, including the carpet, the seat covers, and even the flight attendants’ uniforms. One of my biggest pet peeves with air travel is how long it takes most people to get situated on while boarding plane. It annoys me to no end watching people hold up the boarding line by camping out in the aisle seemingly packing or unpacking their entire carry-on bags. I make sure I have everything I need for the flight in my small carry-on, and I’ll only retrieve items from the overhead bin after take off, if I absolutely need something, or if I’m seated in the bulkhead. My fellow passengers on this particular flight took things to an extreme. I kid you not, pretty much every single passenger on that A330 was either standing in the aisle re-arranging their carry-ons or just standing in aisle to talk, either not caring or lacking awareness there were other people still trying to board the plane. Though we hadn’t pushed back yet, the flight attendants already looked worn out trying get everyone seated.


Although I moaned about being stuck in the middle seat, I think I had it better than my friend in the aisle seat. People were constantly moving around in the aisle getting stuff from the overhead bins above him and dropping whatever item they were retrieving on him. Others would bump into him while walking around. To top it all off, the folks across the aisle from him and the good folks behind him were constantly coughing without covering their mouths. In short, the intrusions were constant, and my friend was more than a little annoyed.