Not sure how many of you have flown to Australia. From Vancouver that's a 14-hour flight. If you have a chance to fly business or first class, take it! We didn't. We were in the middle of the pack in the back, and I have a newfound empathy for the plight of a sardine. No, not the ones in the tin, because that's too late and getting in the can was probably just a selfish act of escape. No, I'm talking about earlier in life when they were still in their schools. They all move together as one with their mouths open. My empathy is for the sardine in the middle because you have absolutely no choice in any movement. And if you are a sardine, the other ones are stinky. I thought about sardines a number of times in our 14-hour travel window. Several times when the food was being handed out - all arms reach for a package that all regret in the end, once near the beginning where the brain surgeon pushes the button and slams his seat all the way back, immediately followed by the obligatory chain reaction of successive rows taking out their anger on the sardine behind them by slamming their chair back as well. Then of course the movement of one soul to the washroom followed by basically everyone else, and to cap it off, the whole school getting up and into the aisles to retrieve their carry-on as soon as the plane comes to a halt and they say that silly cross-check thing. I was going to include a photo of a school of sardines but my camera is not waterproof.
No matter, we're here! And that's all that counts.
You are hilarious! As I was reading, I was picturing sardines with human heads on a crowded airplane.🤣🤣🤣
I have made that sardine trip but was lucky to share three seats with only one other person until Hawaii where he was bumped up to Business Class leaving me all three seats. On the way back I was fortunate enough to be bumped to business class but was still tired when I got home - still getting over it and that was 19 years ago.