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I Don’t Get It!

21 June 2011 3 Comments

Just got back from a wonderful fiction writer’s conference in San Diego (more on that in a later blog). Getting there and back necessitated 4 flights segments, so I had to listen to the “fasten your seatbelt” instruction 4 times.

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The thought occurs to me: Is there a moron anywhere in the world who doesn’t know how to buckle a seatbelt?? Do we really still need flight attendants worldwide instructing us on how to fasten a seat belt? Does anyone have any idea of how much time is wasted every day on this inane instruction?

The way I figure it, anyone who doesn’t know how to buckle a seatbelt should be removed from the gene pool anyway! Then again, seatbelt or not, what are your chances of making it out alive from a plane crash?

I think that anyone over age 5 should have to pass a seat belt buckling proficiency test before boarding. If you flunk, you are sent down to the rental car counter where- does this makes any sense?- you can rent a car without any seatbelt instruction whatsoever, even though seat belts are well proven to save lives in the event of a car crash. Go figure!

  • http://www.facebook.com/musicaljim James Winters

    …and then she goes into the pilot area all the way up way front, unbeknownst to everyone, and has to also instruct the pilots on how to do their seatbelts just in case. A mysterious ritual?
    :) )

  • http://www.facebook.com/musicaljim James Winters

    PS, your blog is really too much fun. I was merely kidding about my post just above. So, I googled seat belts; imagine that. They describe various types! Really?
    There’s two-point, three-point, center buckle, helicopter ones, race car ones, lift vs. the press button… And they talk about how more typically a person would not even survive an actual plane downed (crash, ekk) … Wow, this really feels far afield from photography. And the attendant does get paid for explaining the seat belt to us google says; which of course means that he or she can save for a new dslr with quality tripod. Ok there. I somehow found my way back: “blogger turbulence” if not near stall/spin. My magnetic compass was spinning there. Stall horn even went off for a sec’
    :)

  • lpicker

    James:

    I know you were kidding. But with all those seatbelt options, it’s a wonder someone hasn’t gotten a doctorate on it! I’m curious what the cost of the seatbelt compliance is. I’ll bet some economist somewhere could calculate it… probably billions a year!

    Les