Non Stop Talking on the flight
Nov 5, 2009 | 9:40 am
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Noise cancelling headphones all the way, baby!
I was on a Korean Air flight two years ago when a couple next to me in F sat in the aisle and started shelling peas. The FAs asked them to return to their seats and they began arguing in Korean. Eventually they went back to their seats.
Count your blessings.
I was on a Korean Air flight two years ago when a couple next to me in F sat in the aisle and started shelling peas. The FAs asked them to return to their seats and they began arguing in Korean. Eventually they went back to their seats.
Count your blessings.
Nov 5, 2009 | 10:02 am
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If you don't like other people talking, you can start talking to yourself loudly, and maybe they'll quiet down because they're weirded out by you... 
Just don't be surprised if the crew has police meet you as you deplane at the gate...
Just don't be surprised if the crew has police meet you as you deplane at the gate...
Nov 5, 2009 | 10:11 am
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A. Don't sweat the little things.
B. For conversation in rows ahead or behind, accept that, like a restaurant with no empty tables elesewhere, and with no way to disembark, you are sentenced to become an unwilling and unwitting listener. If you knew the conversationalists were "Non-revs", I suppose you might, ineffectively in all likelihood, complain.
C. Return your "noise canceling" headphones for a refund.
D. If seated by someone who demands your attention and conversation, accept that often he/she may be utililizing you for therapeutic resons - a need to share or to reduce stress. You have only two options, producing a card which claims that you can neither hear, read lips or comprehend sign language, or producing a card which claims you are a licensed therapist and need his/her name and address for sending the bill.
E. Remember, the Chaplain's Office is closed, so there's no way your TS card may be punched.
B. For conversation in rows ahead or behind, accept that, like a restaurant with no empty tables elesewhere, and with no way to disembark, you are sentenced to become an unwilling and unwitting listener. If you knew the conversationalists were "Non-revs", I suppose you might, ineffectively in all likelihood, complain.
C. Return your "noise canceling" headphones for a refund.
D. If seated by someone who demands your attention and conversation, accept that often he/she may be utililizing you for therapeutic resons - a need to share or to reduce stress. You have only two options, producing a card which claims that you can neither hear, read lips or comprehend sign language, or producing a card which claims you are a licensed therapist and need his/her name and address for sending the bill.
E. Remember, the Chaplain's Office is closed, so there's no way your TS card may be punched.
Nov 5, 2009 | 12:06 pm
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PS: I know several that do - not everyone is a small-timer.
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Nov 5, 2009 | 1:25 pm
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Telling me to effectively hire my own jet because I don't want to listen to someone talking for 4 hours non stop on a flight? Ok not rude but not the smartest comment.
Do you think my comment it is ruder than someone running their mouth non stop for 4 hours on a flight? Ok....lets get back on topic
Do you think my comment it is ruder than someone running their mouth non stop for 4 hours on a flight? Ok....lets get back on topic
Nov 5, 2009 | 1:29 pm
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A...If seated by someone who demands your attention and conversation, accept that often he/she may be utililizing you for therapeutic resons - a need to share or to reduce stress. You have only two options, producing a card which claims that you can neither hear, read lips or comprehend sign language, .......
Add to that card a request for donations... that'll shut them up real fast!!!!!!
Nov 5, 2009 | 1:30 pm
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Telling me to effectively hire my own jet because I don't want to listen to someone talking for 4 hours non stop on a flight? Ok not rude but not the smartest comment.
Do you think my comment it is ruder than someone running their mouth non stop for 4 hours on a flight? Ok....lets get back on topic
Do you think my comment it is ruder than someone running their mouth non stop for 4 hours on a flight? Ok....lets get back on topic
Nov 5, 2009 | 1:48 pm
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No, I don't think it's rude. Commercial air travel is another form of public transportation. When I travel, I recognize that I have to protect my own interests, so I fly with ear plugs or headphones. If a situation really gets out of hand, I'm not averse to politely asking the talkers to lower their voices, but in 30 years of flying, I might have done that twice.
Nov 5, 2009 | 1:53 pm
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As the caution in post #23 has not been heeded, this thread is now closed. Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator.