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7/4/14 Friday - day 1

Flew out of Philadelphia on US Airways. The airport wait was almost unbearable. It had been eight months since my last visit so all I wanted to do was blink and be there. That’s not going to happen so I need to find a comfortable seat and think of where I will be just in time for happy hour.

Boarding Call…finally!! Why are passengers loaded on the plane from the front to the back?? Filling from the back to the front will keep the line moving and less isle blocking. Doesn’t make sense. Besides it’s so hard to keep my hips from bumping arms and shoulders…

As I buckled myself in I envisioned the “on-line seat layout” of the plane. You know the one you view when you choose your seat. While waiting for take-off, I so wished the chart provided just a little more information about the other passengers. Like it would have let me know that the seat behind the one I selected was occupied by a whiney 5 year old and beside him was the father holding an inconsolable toddler whose cries would pierce my ear drums 50% of the time we’re in the air. I would have foresaw that the 7 year old girl in font of me would discover the recline button on her seat, but couldn’t decide if she wanted to be upright or tilted back. It would have warned me that the hips/thighs of the occupant next to me are just as healthy as mine while her companion, who is half our size, sat in the isle seat. I would have also been prepared to listen to the chatter of more school age children than I’m used to when I travel. Schools out so not only adults get to fly to Jamaica.

Going to be a long flight.