I was talking to the flight attendants on the way up to Seattle (the person in the row ahead of me was vying for grandmaster idiot status during the flight), and they commented on my iPod.
Turns out that they like the iPod, but people keep wearing them during the pre-flight "how to get off the plane in an emergency" talk.
C'mon, people--take the headphones out of the ears and listen to the nice attendants. It's all of a couple of minutes, and it won't hurt you.
Posted by lsefton at October 11, 2004 09:39 PMConsidering that it takes them 8 times as long to tell me a variety of useful information like *how to fasten and unfasten a seat belt*, I read the card in the seat back in front of me and ignore the flight attendant lecture unless it's funny (see Southwest Airlines).
It doesn't surprise me that people ignore it. They've heard it all before, none of it is new except where the exits are (and if they have any brains they checked when they walked in) and nobody believes it's going to happen to them anyway.
I agree, be nice to the flight attendant, but I don't think that has anything to do with taking your headphones off during the pre-flight stupidity (which is not their fault).
Posted by: Evan Robinson at October 12, 2004 08:30 AM