Summary of A Twenty-Four Hour Flight Hour 1: Board plane. Think 'Christ, this seats as comfy as a Porcupine Skin condom.' Put on Walkman to try and cover up noise of screaming little buggers behind you. Carefully investigate contents of seat pouch. In fifteen seconds, you have used all entertainment possibilities it offers to you. Hour 2: Scratch arse for eighteenth time. Consider talking to bloke next to you. Decide to leave it while he finishes his 'Hot Nuns With Fresh Fruit' magazine. Try to ask hostess for a drink, but can't attract their attention: they're all on their way to the back for a quick knee-trembler with a fat German businessman or going forward to help the Captain grease his joystick. Hour 3: You realise why flying out of Australia really sucks. In the time you've been airborne, you could have crossed Europe, or the US. But here, you've just passed over ONE BLOODY SHEEP STATION ! Why don't they rebuild move all the good bits of Australia to Manchester, for example. I'll tell you why. We're safer from terrorists, because none of them can be stuffed taking this incredibly long plane trip to kill us !! Hour 4: First set of XTRA LONG LIFE batteries die. Replace them. Keep trying to sleep. Have you ever tried to stretch your legs and needed just one more inch of room to do it ? It's living hell ! And you can't get out because like an idiot, you asked for a window seat, and the two geriatrics next to you appear to be dead for all the movement they're showing. Hours 5 - 7: You might have slept: you're not sure. It is clear that are exactly 247 stitches around the headrest in front, and about the same number of protruding metal things on this chair/jabbing your legs. You have, however, perfected the art of sleeping with your eyes open. Hour 8: Land in Bangkok for 45 minute duty free binge and getting sniffed by drug dogs. Lets hope they know the difference between smelly socks and heroin. Hour 9: Back onto the plane. The hippies that left you at Bangkok, in search of enlightenment etc... have been replace with upper middle class European gents with strangely satisfied looks on their faces. You are served a plate of something that may or may not once have been food. For the tenth time, you read that second paragraph on page 8 of Lord of The Rings because you can't concentrate long enough to hold the plot together in your head. Hour 10: Due to lack of circulation, you've gone numb from the bum down. The apparently deceased geriatrics have moved (Praise De Lawd ! It's a miracle !) but only to go stink up the lavvies with the smell of Geritol, incontinence underwear, and ice cream stains from fourteen loving but clumsy grandchildren. You seize the opportunity to drag your bloodless bum up and down the aisle to try and force some feeling back into it. As you casually drag your feet, you look around and curse the bitch at the ticket counter who wouldn't give you a ticket next to that bunch of Swedish nympho cheerleaders in the back. Hour 11: You spend most of this hour treading carefully back from the front of the plane to the back. What you're trying to avoid, (besides little kids) is building up static electricity and shocking yourself every five steps. When one of the little buggers jumps off an armrest, lands on your corns, and buries his plastic football helmet straight into the family jewels, you seriously consider testing the strength of the suction on the toilets to see how long the little mongrel can hold on to the yellow-splashed seat. Or if the toilets are busy, maybe rubbing both feet vigorously on the static-inducing carpet and zapping the little bastards' eyes with 800 volts of carpet power. Hours 12-24 Repeat the above, only WORSE ! ================ More of this alleged humor is available in the epic space saga.... Rocket Roger ! Now showing on rec.humor, but why not just subscribe ! Drop me a line at edb393gbp3@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au and tell me why my user ID is so annoying ! ================
(From the "Rest" of RHF)