Story Four: THE
CATTLE CLASS
From the Diary of Melissa Ranter
Can I just say it again – I really can’t stand travelling
long haul flights on economy class. I call them ‘cattle class’.
I hate it even more when the airlines started bringing their
prices down, so that 'now everyone can fly’. No, seriously – some people should
not be allowed to fly. In fact, they should not even be allowed to leave their
house!
I’ll tell you why I have such deep contempt for the
cattle class.
For starters, the seats are the size of peanuts. I mean,
come on! Have they seriously not seen the sizes of our ass or what? Squeezing
us all into the pathetic contrapment they call a seat would not make our ass
stay that small, ok. In fact, most of us are just bulging out of our seams and
leaking onto the next wretched seat.
Secondly, what’s with that rigid metal piece plunked in
between each seat? That should not even be called an armrest. It should be
called, a steel divider to keep everyone in their place. No two passengers can
place their arms on these things. Have you tried? It only accommodates barely
half an arm from each passenger. And the one who gets stuck in the middle seat
will always have my sincere sympathy.
Thirdly, do you ever notice how there is NEVER enough overhead
cabin storage in Cattle Class? I mean, there are so many more of us in the back,
and yet we have to squash all our allowed number of carry-on items into that miserable
shared space. Surely, they must know by now that it is simply not working!
Those passengers in the front have more storage space but they hardly carry
anything onboard. They should just re-distribute the storage space – seriously!
Every time I try to open the over-head cabin, it’s like opening a jack in the
box. Only, it’s not a funny surprise I get. It’s a collage of wreckage.
Oh how I hate smelly people in the plane and more than
anything else, smelly feet! For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why the
people in cattle class never take showers. Well, they don’t smell like they
take any showers at all! Do they like deliberately not shower for 3 days and
then get into the plane just to aggravate people like me who have a high regard
for personal hygiene? Try sitting over 5 hours being sandwiched by two very
un-attractive and smelly passengers. You’ll learn a new meaning of pain very
quickly.
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