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Friday, April 06, 2012

In Flight Entertainment


Screenful of solitary fun
Seven miles up over the eastern seaboard, December 2011
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You've got to feel for Air Canada. In between overlapping labour strife involving pilots, ground workers and the occasional flight diverted by drunken-then-fired-RIM-exec passengers, it's been a bad year for our national carrier. So the fact that the seatback screens on our flight weren't working wasn't enough for me to raise enough of a ruckus to merit an F-16 escort and an unscheduled night in the pokey fending off advances from my new best friend Bubba.

Still, it was a bit of a letdown, as I had been looking forward to anesthetizing myself with old episodes of The Ropers, The Littlest Hobo, and the Beachcombers. I always wanted to know what happened to Relic, after all.

So I played the fuzzy-self-portrait game, instead. And in doing so earned enough stares from strangers and flight attendants that I just had to steal a furtive glance out the window to ensure we hadn't picked up a missile-carrying Viper off our port wing.

Ah, the joys of commercial aviation in the post-9/11 era. How do you cope?
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2 comments:

  1. FilipBlog1:10 PM, April 06, 2012

    This is more and more the case. I like it. It is less boring.

    Greetings,
    Filip

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  2. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©1:20 PM, April 06, 2012

    I just had to steal a furtive glance out the window to ensure we hadn't picked up a missile-carrying Viper off our port wing.

    What, you weren't worried about that gremlin that was eating the wing?
    ~

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