A Place I Despise
‘We would now like to invite all passengers to board the aircraft’. This is the call which tells me it’s time to enter the place I despise most of all. The Canadian airlines plane may not be the sort of thing most people would find themselves complaining about but I’ve had to board what has seemed like exactly the same plane for the past 5 years.
People who haven’t flown on a plane before have not yet experienced the horrors of modern airline travel. The screaming baby in front. The little 5 year old kid behind who won’t stop kicking my seat. The 9 hours of pure boredom that seem too drag on forever, the old man who’s snoring so loud that I swear even the pilot should be able to hear him. It’s not that I have a problem with every aeroplane there's just something about Canadian airlines I don’t like. Maybe it’s the smell. The air seems to be as stale as the bread in my gran’s kitchen. Or maybe it’s the way the seats are about as comfortable as sitting on a thorn bush covered in vinegar. Honestly they might as well have just let us lie on the floor, it would have been more comfortable. In every other long haul flight the passengers are usually provided with in flight entertainment but it seems Canadian airlines forgot that people don’t like to sit with nothing to do for 9 hours. So when I sit down I am staring at the stains of god knows what on the back of the seat in front with the ripped travel magazines and the ruined safety card thinking ‘Oh God, here we go again….’ And another thing, why do they think people want to look at travel magazines with articles about places that they’re not going to? I mean we’re already on the plane it’s a bit late to be reading about other holiday destinations!
