I think this is a whinge. Used diapers, chocolate bars, sex...Oh it just doesn't bear thinking about.

Anyone with half a brain would figure out being stuck on a plane for hours with bad rubbish disposal means those front pockets are going to become rubbish bins. There's nothing in those pockets a garbo wouldn't have seen before. Hell there's nothing mentioned there I haven't seen before.

Here's a nice simple explanation no excuses required. Plane travellers are exhibiting normal behaviors in the circumstances. There's nothing there that people haven't done on the ground. The only real difference is that it can be observed because planes are sardine cans. So you are going to see all those awful, disgusting things that garbos, cops, doctors and other ppl (like say flight attendants) who essentially clean up after humanity see all the time. Much of which is not a big deal. like Diapers. babies crap. Sometimes it's nicer to wrap it up with a diaper than let it run over the seat. Oh gee where does one see a way to get rid of it. Hmm there's the front pocket or the flight attendant. Who attends you at mealtimes only. Or you can try to squeeze along the aisle and find a bin somewhere, hopefully not dropping it in someone's chicken alla plastqiue along the way, assuming you're allowed to leave the seat of course. Perhaps just shove it under the seat so someone can use it as a lifejacket. Maybe you can hand it to the guy in front as a Christmas present.

All i can say is TG they have toilets for adults.

'Clinical Aviation Psychologist' ??!!
Oy vay

Dusty,
Sent on WSJ link to all my good buds,of both sexes, and family, only the bro, who have had a lifetime in the airline business, Captains, FA's & Station Agents, last are truly unrecognized heroes.
Even tho' there was an A&E series a few years back, title escapes me. Trust other blog readers will soon supply.
Mike
BTW, talk to The Armorer about my "shame", and then go read "Lone Survivor", as should everybody, I know you're legion, who's reading this comment!

Argent,
Hey, thanks for proving the half a brain theory!
If you had half the brain you think you have, you'd have twice the brain you actually have.

Argent,

You ARE joking, right? Just want to make sure....

Hello Mike. No theory on half brains provided, nor claims of my or your brain capacity. Do read. Insult not required, assuming it is that. If you feel the need to do so publicly please come up with something that works.

Dusty: Of course I'm joking, I haven't made special use of a full diaper since the Wedding Cake Incident of '52, but I do think the article was too much whine and there would be far worse an average frequent flier or flight attendant might be exposed to than chocolate bars and the mile high club. Glad you are well, I think the Armorer misses your contributions.

Ok wait... we can say "bollocks" but we have to dollar sign "ass"?

Full frontal verbal nudity is ok but a little ass makes us go all girly and giggly?

Sorry but some of us need to know.

The slobs, like the poor, have always been with us -- the only thing that's different is that they can now afford the price of a ticket on an airplane.

In case anybody's interested, I've noticed that the Slobification of the US took its Great Leap Forward when it started becoming unfashionable to be polite in public. Such as being gentlemanly and holding the door open for a lady.

Almost had my head handed to me for doing that in NYC a couple years back -- and not by the guy she was with, either.

However, should the Deployed Gentleman hold the door open for a Warrior Princess over *here*, he will be rewarded with the *nicest* smile...

Thank you, my friend. Thank you. From all of us garbage collectors up in the sky.

I'm one of those people who nuts when someone leans back into me. How do I respond? First, I ask the person to not lean so far back. Then, when they get up to go to the bathroom I simply push the seat up and when they come back hold my arm against the seat back. Simple, effective, and speaks to the problem. I don't take it out on the aircrew.

People just like being rude. Period. Like UB says. Same thing with kids in movie theatres. Parents drop off little Billy and Jane at the theatre, they make a ton of noise, you yell at the little twits, they page daddy so he's waiting out in the parking lot for you to get you for yelling at his little darlings. Where-ever we're at we're sooo cool we don't have to be nice. We're Queens/Kings of our Universe and nobody else blippin' matters.