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[pantryslut]

On the flight home from Chicago to Dallas, I was seated one row in front of someone I came to call Post-Nasal Drip Man.

Post-Nasal Drip Man had a habit of snorting about every 10 minutes. I think it was an unconscious reaction. Allergies or something.

Nonetheless, it was one of those tics that just grates on the nerves. Two and a half hours, every ten minutes. Snort. Snort. Snrf. I was very tempted to hand the guy a travel pack of tissues. Or maybe stuff one up his nose.

As we were boarding the flight from Dallas to Oakland, I was praying aloud (quietly) that I would not get seated near Post-Nasal Drip Man this time. Please God, please please, God, please. Steven, overhearing me, remarked perkily that maybe he wasn't on this flight.

In reply, I snapped, "Steven, he's the guy in the yellow t-shirt and shorts about ten feet behind us."

Post-Nasal Drip Man did not overhear me. But one of the flight attendants did.

"Ma'am, do you have a problem with another passenger?" she asked. No, demanded.

I tried to demur, but she was quite insistent. "Ma'am, if you have a problem with another passenger, please let us know."

"No, no problem, it's nothing," I said, waving my hands merrily and skittering away to my seat.

Post-Nasal Drip Man was seated about ten rows behind me.

Comments

Snort. Snort. Snrf.

[fightingtiger.livejournal.com]

I have this image of you begging the flight attendant for headphones.

I believe Peggy Post does say that offering a tissue to someone is not in bad form.

Don't tell anybody I read Peggy Post.

[debbieann.livejournal.com]

noise cancelling headphones have made all the difference for me. They really take the edge off in flights, because stuff like that can irritate me a lot.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Noise cancelling headphones have been forbidden on the last few flights I've taken. I don't know if different airlines interpret "electronic devices" differently, or if the definition has just changed with time. I remember when they just forbade cell phones. And I've been on flights when they specified a short list of things that needed to be turned off. This year, the lists were quite long, and explicitly included noise-cancelling headphones, as well as audiocassette players. I'm surprised to be allowed to leave the battery in my watch.

[claudimp.livejournal.com]

I have a co-worker who does that, when her allergies are in the right alignment. When it's quiet, it's just the churning of the fan in the one malfing computer, the hum of the scanner, the whining of the switchbox, and SNIFF - pause - pause - pause - SNIFF - pause - pause - pause ...