You’re probably like me and don’t pay much attention to the safety message before a flight. And you definitely don’t take a look at the manual at your seat (except for the first flight you took after the landing on the Hudson). Usually, I’m trying to craftily hide my iPod cord so that the attendant won’t make me turn it off, while praying that the plane will stay in the air, and trying to understand exactly why the plane stays in the air.
When you fly frequently (or even yearly…or even once in the last 10 years), you pretty much know what the flight attendant or the video will tell you. Over head mask, exit signs, don’t smoke, your seat cushion floats. But what if just this once there’s something new? Ok there probably isn’t, but we should probably still pay attention. Sitting here at the computer, I know what to do if the cabin loses pressure. But honestly, I know I won’t stay calm on the plane if we have to brace ourselves for landing, and everything I thought I knew will hopefully not just ooze out of my brain (though I’m pretty sure my life jacket will be on backwards).
The airlines know this, too, and they want you to be safe. Luckily, the message is the same everywhere (who wrote the international script? That guy must be rich) but the delivery is now a treat in and of itself.
See what our friends down under are doing:
OMG they’re NAKED! This is funny :o) and it caught my attention. Maybe not for the full four minutes, but at least for a while.
Tomorrow, I hop on a Southwest flight to Providence for a weeklong vacay. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to the safety instructions. Those Southwest flight attendants are funny. And who doesn’t need a little humor when you’re thousands of miles in the air?
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