Did you read about that pilot who lost it and started shouting and screaming on a JetBlue flight? Wow, on Jet blue, even pilots can’t get earphones and a drink?
I would have loved to have overheard the conversations on that flight. Passenger: “Who’s the crazy lunatic being pinned to the floor?” Flight attendant: “That’s the pilot, ma’am.” Passenger: “No, really, who is he?”
It reminds me of flying through Russia in the old days. It was never us passengers who drank too much, got rowdy and had to be restrained, it was the pilots and flight attendants. One of the passengers would hold down the pilot while the rest of us took turns flying the plane.
The travel business gets wackier every week. Case in point. I don’t usually agree with statements by the extremist wackos at the notorious Islamic seminary in Deoband, India, but I like what they did last month. They issued a fatwa against airport full-body security scanners. I hope they assassinate the cheeky machine at my nearest airport before my next flight (only because the sight of my magnificent body unclothed may leave staff feeling traumatized and inadequate).
And what about the news that you can now check your Facebook page in mid-air? The face of my friend Andy Tung, a shipping executive, comes up every day as a recommendation on my page. I told him: “The Facebook computer really, really wants us to be friends. It’s desperately disappointed that we’re not.” He said: “But we are friends.” I pointed out that real friendship doesn’t count.
A journalist told me that Facebook’s efforts to connect users through overlapping contacts led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man last month. The guy has been slapped with bigamy charges.
That got me thinking. The Facebook computer is going to cause big trouble for Asian guys like my late lamented Dad, who tended to marry more than the recommended number of women. And what about all those Hong Kong/Singaporean guys who have secret wives in China/Malaysia? For Asia, the “friend suggestion” program needs to change its heading from “People You May Know” to “People You May Have Married”.
But, of course, you don’t need a computer to get into that sort of trouble. A friend of mine worked for a well-known hotel in a coastal resort. To drum up business, he made a list of all the couples who had booked into the hotel in recent years and wrote letters addressed to the women: “We hope the two of you enjoyed your previous visit. Why not surprise your husband with another romantic getaway?”
It was only when furious feedback started pouring in that he realized that Asian businessmen don’t have romantic getaways with their wives, but their secretaries, mistresses and hourly paid workers.
Anyway, one travel-planning reader told me she had tickets for the London Olympics. Not for beach sports, I hope. The International Olympic Committee last week announced that they had cancelled one regulation in female beach volleyball, the rule that says players must wear bikini-style sportswear. Huh? Are there any other rules in female beach volleyball?
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