Jimmy Kimmel wonders if you have ever been seated next to someone annoying on an airplane? For our purposes, your spouse and others you bring aboard do not count. Unless you fly first class, we travel in such close, intimate quarters that even a minor annoyance can fray your nerves, but someone who constantly kicks your seat is crazy-making! Another annoyance in close quarters that gets to me is the passenger who reclines – virtually into your lap. We don’t know one another that well! One which often can’t be helped, is an infant who cries – seemingly non-stop. People get huffy when you suggest tipping a bit of airline brandy into the wee one’s bottle. Then there are the schleppers, who won’t starve should they survive a crash landing. My sister once flew ten hours with a lady who had somehow smuggled a large (once) frozen fish aboard, which ripened during the flight.
The reason for all of this complaining, is that Expedia asked fliers to name the most annoying types of airplane passengers. Jimmy was going to just read the list, but he thought it would be more interesting if the great Sir Patrick Stewart acted it out…And he was right, of course. While Stewart is convincing and very funny while acting out the most obnoxious fliers, I’ll take Sir Patrick Stewart as a seatmate any day – smelly old tuna sub and all. I wonder if the NSA allows you to bring a clothespin for your nose?