‘Rude Recliners, Armrest Hogs, Shoulder Surfers’: Are You an Annoying Traveler?
Travel Blog • Valerie Conners • 11.26.08 | 11:10 AM ET
Photo by A recent poll of travelers’ most irritating behavior by TripAdvisor.com indicates that the number one annoyance is having children kick the back of your seat. Also making the list: people eating stinky meals, loud cellphone talkers and folks taking too long to load their overhead luggage (you know who you are!). And yet there may be help for the irritating traveler.
Salon published a very funny and very snarky essay highlighting how not to be a bothersome traveler. Asks writer Patrick Smith, “Are there really that many people who don’t know that oversize liquids and sharp tools are verboten on aircraft? What, you mean I can’t fly with a gallon of antifreeze (I saw it), my favorite claw hammer or a replica handgun? Since when?”