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Most Annoying Travel Habits
delalluvia:
I voted other.
Smells are what bother me most on trips.
Yes, the muffuletta story sounded very enjoyable and delicious to me. I wouldn't mind the smell of it when trapped on a transport like a plane. However, it's likely not everyone enjoyed the odor.
The neighbors I used to have cooked a meal every Sunday that contained, I don't know what kind of hellish spice. It was rank and stank like spiced sanitation worker summer armpit. The stench would permeate through the other 3 apartments in our section and last about 2 days. By the time it started to fade, another weekend would be here and the meal would be prepared again.
I can't imagine someone bringing whatever dish that was on board a plane and eating it, expecting others to put up with it.
My first flight to London, I was very grateful. I managed to get to my seat just to find a man already sitting in it. He looked Middle Eastern or Indian. I politely advised him of this fact and he apologized and moved past me to get to his seat in the correct row - the one behind me. As he moved past me, his scent hit me full force. He hadn't bathed in days. He smelled really bad and strongly. As I made my way to my seat and the man moved to his seat, I caught a glimpse of the horrified expression of the woman who was now forced to sit next to him for the next 8 hours.
While in England, I took a crowded train to Brighton. While traveling, I realized, that sitting next to the window, facing the back of the train was making me a little motion sick. So long as I was able to breathe slowly and calmly, I was able to control my nausea. Then a nice looking young man from some Slavic nation sat next to me. He hadn't bathed in days either.
Imagine already being nauseated by motion sickness and trying to stave off vomiting by breathing deeply of dirty armpit air.
I ended up sticking my nose in window vent, breathing very shallowly with my head turned away and my eyes closed.
It was a long trip to the coast. :P
ifyoucantfixit:
I think I would have gone to the steward, and told them to make that person go and clean up, or at least asked to be changed to a
different seat. One should never have to undergo that............uuuuuuuuuuuuuuk
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: buffymon on December 28, 2008, 07:09:03 pm ---I have always wondered if people traveling with children notice that people try to not sit close to them etc?
I always try to be descrete with my childrenphobia ;D when traveling, but I somtimes wonder if they notice anyways :P
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They may notice, but if so I bet they often understand. Many people with children don't like sitting close to other people's children. Heck, some people with children wish they didn't have to sit close to their OWN children!
Children can be obnoxious on a plane (or in a restaurant or movie theater) -- that's all there is to it. People who have kids and travel mostly realize this, but can't help it. If you can't fix it, you just gotta stand it.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 28, 2008, 09:18:57 pm ---
Children can be obnoxious on a plane (or in a restaurant or movie theater) -- that's all there is to it. People who have kids and travel mostly realize this, but can't help it. If you can't fix it, you just gotta stand it.
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Before I had a child, I didn't understand why parents didn't control their kids better. Now I know there is only so much control one can have in the moment short of removing the kid from the situation, especially if the kid is stressed out, like during travel.
In a restaurant, I have always taken my child right out when she's acted up, and wouldn't stop within a few seconds. But in an airplane, what can you do? We're all stuck. Luckily, she's reached the age of a little reason. But dang those earliest years were a challenge. Everybody hates being cooped up, but for a little kid, it can feel intolerable. And unlike delalluvia, who showed great coping skills by turning to the window, breathing fresh air, with eyes closed, a little kid doesn't know how to endure stuff. And if a baby is crying on a plane, it's probably because its tiny little eustachian tubes hurt unbearably, and doesn't have the capacity to understand that crying makes it all the worse. That is one of the things I taught Mini-Meno as early as she could understand - crying on airplane makes your ears hurt worse. She understood that by the time she was two and a half or so.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on December 29, 2008, 05:36:29 am ---Before I had a child, I didn't understand why parents didn't control their kids better. Now I know there is only so much control one can have in the moment short of removing the kid from the situation, especially if the kid is stressed out, like during travel.
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Exactly. I'd see kids misbehaving and assume they had terrible parents. I've sure got my comeuppance for that attitude.
Now I understand that the only thing parents do in those situations that is terrible is, sometimes, take the kids into a place they aren't old enough to be in -- a movie, a nice restaurant -- and then not remove the kids when it's clear they shouldn't be there. Otherwise, the children's childlike behavior is a developmental issue, not a disciplinary one.
--- Quote --- And if a baby is crying on a plane, it's probably because its tiny little eustachian tubes hurt unbearably, and doesn't have the capacity to understand that crying makes it all the worse. That is one of the things I taught Mini-Meno as early as she could understand - crying on airplane makes your ears hurt worse. She understood that by the time she was two and a half or so.
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As I recall, the biggest problem with my kids wasn't crying, it was that they couldn't stand to be confined to a seat for that long. Once they could walk, it was almost impossible for them to sit still for more than a few minutes. I'd bring toys, music, snacks, books ... every distraction I could think of, and then hope they'd fall asleep for a good part of the time. But at some point they'd just have to get up and take a stroll in the aisle.
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