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‘If a Barefoot Man Can’t Walk Into Stuckey’s, Why Can he Sit Next to me All the Way to Sydney?’Great question, Steve Rushin. He poses it in a hilarious column in Time, in which he offers his own “modest proposals to return air travel to its original upright position.” Among them: “Prison time to the passenger who stands in the aisle fastidiously folding his blazer.”
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COMMENTSthanks Mike. Haven’t laughed that hard in a while. By on 12.11.07 at 10:36 AM
Me, too. I almost spit take my OJ this morning. By on 12.11.07 at 11:31 AM
Wow - sounds like Steve has a major foot phobia. Get over it, Steve. They’re just bare feet - they won’t hurt you. That whole column is nothing but a lot of whining. By on 12.11.07 at 01:13 PM
I agree with the writer. We have become uncivil pigs. Why would anyone think it appropriate to propel their toenail clipping publicaly, lie in someone’s lap, grab the back of their seat to haul their own kester up, hold up the line while folding one’s blazer, etc. (I don’t think there is anywhere to change a baby but in one’s seat though.) Although I ride a train car allllll the way at the far end of the train, where cell phones are prohibited, when I point that out people ignore me. When I then ask the conductor to tell them not to use them, they surpringly ask “is this the quiet car?” Yeah it is buddy. Why didn’t you ask me that when I pointed it out? By on 12.12.07 at 10:43 AM
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