Thursday, February 9, 2012

Panic At 39,000 Feet

Millions of passengers fly on commercial airplanes every day. Before take-off stewards and stewardesses stand in the aisles to give safety instructions. They point out emergency exits and show how to put on life vests accompanied by a video. Most people ignore these demonstrations, but two days ago on a flight from JFK to Orlando I noticed that during the segment about air masks that the actors pretending to be passengers calmly slipping the plastic breathing apparatuses over their faces and thought that if and when the air masks dropped from the ceiling of a 757 I am going into a EXORCIST level panic. There will be no calming me down, for if you keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs, then you don't understand the seriousness of the situation. FREAK OUT

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