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13 Thoughts On A 13 Hour Plane Ride

I hope I wasn't that baby when I was 2.

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13 Thoughts On A 13 Hour Plane Ride
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I like that I am an international student who gets to travel from one remote corner of the world to the other. I live in Dubai, UAE, but I also study in Madison, Wisconsin.

I absolutely hate the journey in between.

1. "Please don't step on me!"

"Seatbelt" sign is off. Now is the time for basically half the plane's passenger group to get off their seats, and walk over the limbs of those who are patient or asleep, and rush to the washroom.

Courtesy dictates that you wait for people to leave their seat and let you do your thing, but people do not know courtesy.

2. "I hope I wasn't that baby when I was two."

Is it physically possible for a creature so light and so small to screech so loud?

3. "My ears are gonna pop for sure."


One of the less annoying parts of this journey is to get to listen to a variety of music and watch many movies if you want to pull up the entire ride awake. But then there are also many announcements from the cabin crew along the way. While you listen to something, the volume from this announcement is ridiculously loud compared to what you were doing before it and it HURTS.

4. "Kindly shut up."


5. "Can I dig a hole below me so I can get me some legroom?"

Because that would be nice. This is particularly a big deal if you're tall.

6. "This person hasn't learned the overhead baggage violations; they need to be kicked off the plane."


It is not acceptable to be lazy with the way you carry your baggage and put it overhead by leaning on me for support and moving my stuff away WITHOUT my consent. It is also not acceptable to leave your seat, walk over me and keep picking it up again.

7. "Now I'm poor and hungry, and it's all your fault."


Because you reclined your seat all the way and it hit my food.

8. "It's impossible to sleep here."


It never happens, despite the eye mask and noise reduction earphones.


9. "I did not want to touch that."

For anyone who has been on a plane, the narrow walkway is designed to fit everyone comfortably. But people still choose to lean on one side as they walk. And then they rub their thighs off you and it's ewwwwww!!

10. "I feel like I'm changing form."

When your body is squeezed into one tiny seat for all this time, it changes shape.


11. "Am I deaf now?"


Your ears will hurt when you just start flying and when you land. It's not good!!

12. "OMG I might not make it home."


I've been on planes where turbulence was strong enough, I just dropped for like for 5 seconds straight. Or you're just shaking from side to side because it's rough.

This is why the seatbelt sign is on and the staff is doing everything they can!

13. "How long till I land?"

OH right. It's just been thirty minutes...

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