This weekend on a trip to the Little League World Series, I had to do one of my NON favorite things.
Get on a plane.
I am so totally convinced planes are going to go down with me on them, so I have to find lots of things to amuse myself from my untimely death. I usually read everything I can get my hands on while trying not to grab the leg of the person next to me. It was during one of these reading escapades that I discovered the “In case of Emergency” booklet (Which seems like fantastic reading for a plane) which provided enough laughs to keep me from hyperventilating on the assent.
I took a few pictures for you….
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What’s up with this JUMP out…she got some serious air. In a skirt.
Which is ironic, because they want you to take off your high heels.
Obviously if you are wearing a skirt, you have heels on.
But now I know.
Speaking of skirts…every woman in this entire pamphlet had a skirt on.
(With flats)
Hmmm.
Now this one was confusing for me…it translates to DO NOT exit if there is fire, debris, or water.
Um. OK?
Those might be the few reasons you DO exit a downed plane? And if you can’t exit on water, what’s up with the flotation devices?
Then there is this fancy parenting move….
But this…this below is my favorite.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s a subtle stab at why you should always go first class…..they get an extra floatation device.
The rest of us have to fend with just our seat cushions.
And that is why I stay out of the “friendly” skies…
~Trisha
that was absolutely hilarious! i have to check this stuff out the next time i fly. which airline did you fly with?
I haven’t flown since 2004, and I’m with you on hating to fly, but I’m rethinking it now, if the in-flight reading is so entertaining!
And I totally don’t get the “don’t exit in case of fire, debris, or water.” Um, if there’s water, the plane goes sinky-sink, no? Which is giving me a panic attack to even think about here from the safety of my couch.
It all comes back to what Mr. Weasley says in one of the Harry Potter books: “And how DO airplanes stay up?”
When leaving the Indiana air port for Desert Storm, our plane had TWO emergency landings. Our entire Army unit ending up having to stay overnight at the airport and leaving out for Saudi Arabia the next day. Needless to say I have not been on a plane since returning back state side. Can you say over 20 years? haa haa! I so feel you Trisaha. =/
I have only flown twice and also got a kick out of that pamphlet, but you? You made me crack up telling this story than I ever could have on my own reading it again!
OMG Trisha, I almost choked laughing at the picture marked “clearly this is not first class”…LMAO
ROFL That guide is totally sexist. Or maybe it was written back when women were required to wear skirts to fly? I used to work for a company that required you to wear not only skirts, but PANTYHOSE and high heels. They stopped that rule 1 year before I started working there!
LOL!
Maybe the ladies with skirts and flats were all REALLY TALL (think basketball players) so they didn’t feel comfortable in heels?!
You have a great sense of humor!!
This is hilarious. Try that parenting move on dry land and you’re going in for child abuse. Glad I don’t have to fly in the near future.
That’s just hilarious! But, unfortunately for me, not something I should have read as we’re getting on a plane this Saturday!!! Oh, yes, and we’ll be in coach, I guess I could always stash my daughter’s little inflatable boat in my purse…
I have to drug myself to fly. I hate it. I put on my music, read or shut my eyes and ignore everything around me. Except when flying with Kim
I ask you so many questions that we are landing before you know it.
Does C mean that if you are in the bathroom you cannot exit therefore you die?
I didn’t even notice that. That is awesome.
That is hilarious!
LOL! That’s funny. I love planes, and my son and I love the show “Mayday” where the re-enact plane crashes. We were talking about it on the way to the airport and my husband was horrified that we were discussing all of the ways planes crash right before flying. I told him that if I die in a plane crash, I just want them to make an episode of Mayday about it, lol.
I think you had way too much time on your hands on that plane. LOL.
OMGosh I busted out laughing at the last picture. totally makes me think of Titanic
On one of the other flights, they show people IN the boats. We are not sure if that plane had better floaties or what.
I think the people on the plane thought we were drunk as hard as we were laughing at these lol
I wish I had the blowing up your life jacket picture. I told you I should have stolen it.