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Enter technology, exit brain


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As we enter the plane today the lady that is to sit two rows up is on her cell phone.  While I was impressed she was using a headset, as many of you should if you do not, her brain left as she chatted away.  Since the flight was on a small ERJ (AA 5354), there is only 1 side of overhead and the other side has a single row of seats.  Nice if you can get exit row on the single seat side (see location in my posting).  However, she was a couple rows in front of exit, which has entirely nothing to do with this story.

As she chatted away, she placed her small bag on the seat and cell phone.  She then proceeded to place her larger bag in the overhead opposite her.  (one point good for her not using all the overhead).  As people filed in behind her, she immediately stepped into the row below the overhead (one point for good airplane etiquette) to let them by.

Please return to top where I state she placed purse and phone on seat.  Thereby leaving a single, thin, black cord stretched across the aisle.  Since most business travelers have bags, coats and lost their brains too, they walked through it like a jungle trap ready to spring.  Here is the steps in your mental mind:

1.        Woman runs trip cord across aisle.  One side secured to her head, one side to small object on opposite seat.
2.        Man with lost brain comes down path oblivious
3.        Man finds trip-wire with mid thigh
4.        Man stumbles on pulling wire
5.        Woman has headset ripped from ear
6.        Phone commences to flying in reaction to pure physics
7.        Physics ends both ear wrenching, man stumbling and phone flying

Final tally?  One slung phone (damage unknown), one hurt ear (damage unknown and brain had left already), one pissed man (mental damage unknown since brain had left)

...... and one hysterically laughing person in 11A (wait that is me)