Handling irritating seatmates

[madmike2]

HOW TO HANDLE IRRITATING SEATMATES

If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or train follow these instructions: (and maybe say goodbye!).

1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.

2. Remove your laptop.

3. Start up

4. Make sure the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen.

5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.

6. Then hit this link:

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[odot]

Good one....but, I wouldn't try it on a plane.

 

[James Burleigh]

Priceless! And I dare anyone looking at that screen not to get a measurable rise in their own blood pressure!

Looking forward to seeing you next weekend, Mad.

Jb

 

[Bounce]

i put in my ear monitors and turn on my mp3 player.

i also spend less time in jail that way.

 

[James Burleigh]

So it was raining like an SOB here Friday, so I had to decide to buck up and ride in or else take the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train. Although BART has a great stop 10 minutes from my house, getting to my work site in South San Fran would be a bear ass, meaning a total of about 1.5 hours on the train, and then getting a ride from a co-worker to the job site, or getting a shuttle. It wouldv'e taken me a couple hours or more (vs. an hour on the honey). [Of course the car's not an option because, well, it's a car, and you have to sit in traffic and cross bridges, and pay tolls, etc. Not to mention fight my wife and kids for one of the two cars in the driveway.]

On top of that, if you do the BART option, you have filthy, bottomed-out seats that make your back hurt, people yakking (shouting into) cell phones, elbow wars with rude people.... I HATE BART, and I HATE not having the freedom of coming and going on my f**kin' bitchin' MF hot-ass love-it-and-always-wanna-be-ridin'-it Yamaha FJR 1300! (WAAAAAAA!!!!!... I mean VROOOOOOOOM! :yahoo: )

Uh, so anyway, I zipped into all my rain gear and just slogged it on into work, and didn't regret it for a second. Except for maybe that part before the freeway when I couldn't see out of my fogged-up, wet visor and had to keep lifting it and getting stinging raindrops in my eyes while trying not to get run over.... :blink:

So, I didn't need your time bomb that day. But there is a level of rain I will not venture into, and for those days... And oh yes, my March airplane trip to Dallas. But as Odot says, probably wouldn't use it on a plane. Pretty sure the guys with the guns and badges wouldn't find that so funny.... :no2:

Jb

 

[E1Allen]

I could not imagine any positive outcome.

 

[weekend rider]

MM2 way to go I definetely would use it

Re-Peat after me I am not a Para-Noid American living in fear for me it is fear-0 me +1 and still free

weekend rider

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Um, drink a few beers on the plane and fart like crazy? :dribble:

 

[Mike-H]

A BIG +1 Mike :good: .....sent it to 3 friends....thanks for the chuckle :lol: ....

 

[teerex51]

Thanks Mike, good one.... it worked like a charm for me on a very recent plane trip!

Stef

PS: I forgot to mention I was dressed like this.... :blink:

 

[radman]

Thanks Mike, good one.... it worked like a charm for me on a very recent plane trip!
Stef

PS: I forgot to mention I was dressed like this.... :blink:

Allahu Akbar!!!!!!!!!!

 

[airboss]

Thanks Mike, good one.... it worked like a charm for me on a very recent plane trip!
Stef

PS: I forgot to mention I was dressed like this.... :blink:

BTW the cafe, wants it's table cloth back!

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I could not imagine any positive outcome.

+1

The first thing I would do is pop the battery out of the laptop and then proceed to beat the owner with it until he was dead all the time yelling, "Learn how to use passive resistance you ******* moron!" That'd be a bummer if the person intended it as a joke