Recently I flew to our plant in Florida for some work there. On the flight there and back I had to laugh and marvel at a couple of things. I will be the first to admit that I am fairly ignorant when it comes to aviation, but I think I know that the aircraft we all fly on are so chock full of high tech stuff it would even make the HHS IT department's boxers twitch! I mean can you imagine the hydraulic systems and navigation electronics and engine components? Then just when you settle into your seat with a warm-fuzzy feeling that technology is going to take care of you ... then comes the flight attendant speaking over what may be a cheap version of the Fisher-Price Big Bird Karaoke Machine. I think the drive thru speakers at Andys are better than what this lady was spitting through! Ha....
Next, unless you are still driving a 1926 Packard, you are intimately familiar with the use of seat belts. I think I can safely say there isn't one Convoginator out there who has not had seat belts in every car they have owned or riden in yet we have to go through the long-drawn out speech about the metal tab and flap and such....all the while sitting (rotting) out there on the tarmac instead of using those 6,000,000 horsepower jet engines to get us the heck home!! I wont even go into the oxygen mask thing...I mean when and if the real situation arises and they actually fall from the ceiling in front of me...the last thing I will be worried about is if the bag is supposed to inflate when I exhale !! I'll be in shock by that time anyway.
Happy trails...pilgrims.
Phynerk
