This is an interesting thread, and some stuff I've seen fellow pax do drives me nuts. I turn off my Ipod when they tell me, yet the guy sitting next to me insists on hiding his and keeping it on all the way to ground. I know it's not going to cause us to crash, but for some reason it annoys me when people think they don't need to follow the rules everyone has to. Someday I'm going to strangle this person with his own earbuds and see how he likes it. My face will be red with rage, and I'll be saying through clenched teeth, "We're below 10,000 feet you idiot!!!"

But on the flipside, this thread raises another concern I have. The fact that sometimes I feel like we're being turned in to a society of squealers, or at least encouraged to do it. This is no more apparent than every time I'm in an airport. Just listening to the PA announcements makes me feel like I'm stuck in some sort of Orwell/Bradbury nightmare, "If you see anyone acting suspicious, please inform a TSA representative." Sometimes I wonder if the next thing we'll hear is, "If you hear or see anyone speaking badly about the TSA, please notify the TSA." Perhaps it's the reason I haven't strangled Ipod guy yet on a flight. I'm hypersensitive to feeling like I'm becoming part of the problem as opposed to part of the solution.