Flying. It used to be the place where the elite met to travel the world. First class accommodations throughout the plane. Smoking and non-smoking sections. In flight meals with entree choices and liquid refreshment. Now, the friendly skies have turned into a Greyhound bus like experience, the companies crowding as many people as they can into each aisle with the desire to maximize revenue and minimize comfort. As the sardine can takes off (if and WHEN it takes off), a small amount of relief is experienced. When you consider the journey from the curb to your final destination, the fact that you have any sanity left is a miracle.
But that doesn’t address the issue of what, exactly, went wrong? How did a travel convenience as mechanical miracle turn into an overlong trip to trip to an airborne DMV? And why do we allow it? Granted, getting to Grandma’s for that festive holiday meal is a lot easier when you don’t have to deal with blizzards and icy roads, but are those more detrimental than that weird guy who smells like cabbage and defeat who is chewing your ear off about his theories on the Illuminati? It’s the kind of trade off featured in the gallery below. Sure, you can ignore most inconveniences, but when it comes to flying, the means often fail to justify the ends. See what we mean:
