I'm falling asleep!

[Renee]

I've had a double shot intensity of 10 espresso and I'm still falling asleep at my desk. Every now and then my eyes shut and my head falls.

Usually I sleep the entire way home from a conference but on the last leg I only slept about half because the guy next to me was totally wasted and stunk of alcohol, cigarettes and BO, and he kept leaning on my side of the chair. His leg was even on my chair!

Does anyone have any horrible flight stories coming home from the conference?

One of the guys I was with had a guy on their plane who started running up and down the aisles screaming so they had to handcuff him and divert the plane to portugal before heading to the US. Unreal.

[Rangel]

Hey Renee,

I couldn’t feel your pain more. I got a super nervous guy sitting next to me who was whistling the British anthem the whole flight and.... picking on his bare feet! Seriously if it wasn’t bad enough that a brave mother of 5 decided to travel alone with her offspring….I can still hear them screaming when I close my eyes :P

[Renee]

Hey Renee,

I couldn’t feel your pain more. I got a super nervous guy sitting next to me who was whistling the British anthem the whole flight and.... picking on his bare feet! Seriously if it wasn’t bad enough that a brave mother of 5 decided to travel alone with her offspring….I can still hear them screaming when I close my eyes :P

Nervous people on planes make me nervous. I don't like flying at all which is why I don't sleep the night before so I can make sure I sleep the entire flight.. I have actually freaked out on a plane before because a guy was using his phone up and after we had taken off..

Screaming kids - i dont even hear them anymore..

[rak]

On a flight from Singapore to Brisbane.. as we're about to land.. for about 2 mins this old asian lady was just saying "help me, someone help me.. help me.. help me.. " over and over again.

The whole plane wants to help, but no one is able to help because the plane is descending. A minute into her calls for help.. her grand daughter decides to tell everyone that her grandmother is nervous and tired.

But it still .. made it feel very uneasy. I didn't want to be there if I couldn't help her.

[Renee]

OK well its just after 5pm and I'm falling asleep again and have been for the last 3 hours..

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

OK well its just after 5pm and I'm falling asleep again and have been for the last 3 hours..

Falling asleep where? At your desk?

[ElaineGardiner]

I'm a bit of a nervous flyer too. I was reading a story yesterday in the sun online (a very reliable source), that on a flight from Palma Majorca to Newcastle, a guy tried to open the door 40 mins into the flight. His friends were trying to get him away but he said "it's ok, we're only on a simulator". Eventually someone hit him over the head and he was held down with 8 seat belts!!

I was panicking just reading that story...

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

I'm a bit of a nervous flyer too. I was reading a story yesterday in the sun online (a very reliable source), that on a flight from Palma Majorca to Newcastle, a guy tried to open the door 40 mins into the flight. His friends were trying to get him away but he said "it's ok, we're only on a simulator". Eventually someone hit him over the head and he was held down with 8 seat belts!!

I was panicking just reading that story...

OMG no ways! I'm acrophobic so if anyone had to do that while we're flying I would throttle the guy and not hold back.

I won't hide the fact that I'm S**tscared of flying and even though people always tell me that "statisically it's the safest way to travel"
I have to remind them that if there were as many planes in the air as there are cars on the road then the statistics would be about the
same also of the fact that when your car stalls, it doesn't fall out the sky!

I've had a few expieriences but I think mine are far more hightend than then next person's because of my phobia.

We were flying back from LAC2010 from Heathrow pulling off on the run way and the nose of the plane had just lifted when a strong
cross wind pushed the plane hard towards the terminal, it actually looked as if we were going to hit it but the pilot corrected just in
time but you hear everyone in the cabin with the "Oooooooo's and Aaaaaaaah's" when all of this was going on, but to be seated
right by the window and you can see the terminal just getting bigger and bigger. It's going to leave a skidmark or 2.

There was this other instance just recently for the Dublin Show where we flew with Aer Lingus to Dublin Airport from Charles DeGaul.
We were busy with our decent when we hit some massive wind sheers, that started throwing the plane around like a rag doll.
Now I'm not the most relaxed flyer out there but when I have someone sitting behind me shouting "Oh Jesus, oh Jesus" in a
loud voice, making me want to jump out the window to get it over and done with had to be one of the worst I've ever had.

The one flight on Elal Air from Israel where the plane dropped 700 feet when it hit an airpocket also wasn't great.

Okay maybe I'm not that bad as that woman, but the feeling of plumeting to my death still doesn't excite me.

[ElaineGardiner]

As a nervous flyer...the best thing I can suggest is not to sit next to, or speak to other nervous flyers..

Not because their tapping fingers will make you nervous, but one of you will notice and say "it's ok...i don't like flying either"....and then the whole flight you'll sit swapping horror stories and information about planes and pilots you'll just send up scaring yourself.

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

As a nervous flyer...the best thing I can suggest is not to sit next to, or speak to other nervous flyers..

Not because their tapping fingers will make you nervous, but one of you will notice and say "it's ok...i don't like flying either"....and then the whole flight you'll sit swapping horror stories and information about planes and pilots you'll just send up scaring yourself.

The question is how do you know who's nervous flyer and who isn't. For myself who I end up sitting next to on a plane
unless it's a colleague is pure luck of the draw. Oh and watching Air Crash Investigation also doesn't help either. LOL

[giggles7p]

I refuse to fly because i am positive that my plane will crash into the ocean, i will survive the crash, but JAWS will be waiting for me with open mouth!!!!.....Won't take a cruise because my boat surer than **** will sink and JAWS will be waiting for me with open Mouth!!!!!

This is why i have never been to a conference! Otherwise i would be the biggest party animal in the damn bunch and i don't drink...but give me a toke or two and i am a happy camper!...Buy the way, won't go camping either because GRIZZLY will be waiting to greet me with open mouth!!!.....ps..I love animals! Lmaooooooooooo...Yep, i am ****** up! lol

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

but give me a toke or two and i am a happy camper!...

Then you'll positively love Amsterdam. I went to a "coffee shop" with an affiliate and his wife,
she rolled this Zepplin and looked at me and said "You don't expect me to smoke this on my
own do you?" I don't remember much after that except for this feeling that everyone was
looking at me and that there was something out to get me and that I was so very thirsty.

[giggles7p]

Then you'll positively love Amsterdam. I went to a "coffee shop" with an affiliate and his wife,
she rolled this Zepplin and looked at me and said "You don't expect me to smoke this on my
own do you?" I don't remember much after that except for this feeling that everyone was
looking at me and that there was something out to get me and that I was so very thirsty.

Lmaooooooooooooooo, oh those were the days!!! LOL.....Don't you just love taking something that makes you completely paranoid? LMAOOOOOO
One time i got so stoned i walked to my friends house at 3 in the morning and knocked on her door, and she was also still up [because i smoked with her] and she was so happy to hear me at the door and when she tried to open it the damn door knob feel off on both sides...and we couldn't get the door open!!!...now if i was straight, would not have been so funny, but that night it was the funniest damn thing we ever saw! lol

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

Lmaooooooooooooooo, oh those were the days!!! LOL.....Don't you just love taking something that makes you completely paranoid? LMAOOOOOO One time i got so stoned i walked to my friends house at 3 in the morning and knocked on her door, and she was also still up [because i smoked with her] and she was so happy to hear me at the door and when she tried to open it the damn door knob feel off on both sides...and we couldn't get the door open!!!...now if i was straight, would not have been so funny, but that night it was the funniest damn thing we ever saw! lol

ROTFLOL, I'm sure many of us have had a few stoner moments. I got lost in my local shopping centre once when I was 18 after college after my friend at
the time decided that he wanted a "Philly Blunt" after a movie everything looked so backwards to me and here I was walking through this place trying to
get to the other side and my eyes were blood shot, and my face was pale I looked like Boris Karlov and all the shoppers were looking at me. It was either
my face or the fact that I was holding onto the rails pulling myself along and dragging my feet that got their attention.

[Rangel]

[QUOTE=Conrad-Gowild Gaming;662945]
I won't hide the fact that I'm S**tscared of flying and even though people always tell me that "statisically it's the safest way to travel" QUOTE]
Makes 2 of us. For me its not so much the safety issue, but being in an airplane more than 4 hours makes me shiver. I think its because I am portuguese, this is a small country so I am used to getting everywhere fast.
But on a happy note its friday and I am not flying ANYWHERE hihihi Have a great weekend everyone!

[giggles7p]

ROFLMAOOOO....ya think? LOL

Back in high school myself and my best friend went to the "party park" before school and drank a 5th of Brandy and smoked a doobie, then all day in school i went around telling people that i "drank a doobie and smoked a bottle of brandy'! lol....My friend ended up getting sent home by the high school principle for being drunk, and one of my fav teachers told me to chill out in the back of the room, take a nap, and he won't let on that i am buzzed.....he was soooo cool! lolllll.....Don't ya just wish you could have the freedom now, and don't give a **** attitude we had when we were young, now?....lol

[rak]

There was this other instance just recently for the Dublin Show where we flew with Aer Lingus to Dublin Airport from Charles DeGaul.
We were busy with our decent when we hit some massive wind sheers, that started throwing the plane around like a rag doll.
Now I'm not the most relaxed flyer out there but when I have someone sitting behind me shouting "Oh Jesus, oh Jesus" in a
loud voice, making me want to jump out the window to get it over and done with had to be one of the worst I've ever had.

We must have landed around the same time in Dublin.. our plane started to land, than I heard the planes engine screaming, and its starts pulling up hard and turning. The plane was getting thrown around.. it had 2-3 more goes before it landed. As we landed.. passengers are clapping and cheering.

Elaine... I would have been the first guy out of my seat belting that guy around the head for playing with the exit doors. That's just mad. I try to get those seats, and I'm scared to touch them!

[Renee]

Falling asleep where? At your desk?

Yep and I managed to almost hit my head on the desk. I had to go home because I couldn't keep my eyes open and I'm the only driver in our family so someone had to take the car home.

LOL How did a thread about falling asleep turn into a thread about smokin doobies?

Elaine - every now and then I think to myself while flying "what if someone opened the door".. and it freaks me the fk out. Why are people so retarded?

[Conrad-Gowild Gaming]

Yep and I managed to almost hit my head on the desk. I had to go home because I couldn't keep my eyes open and I'm the only driver in our family so someone had to take the car home.

LOL How did a thread about falling asleep turn into a thread about smokin doobies?

Elaine - every now and then I think to myself while flying "what if someone opened the door".. and it freaks me the fk out. Why are people so retarded?

LOL sorry about the slight derail there, I have no idea of how that happened.

[Renee]

LOL sorry about the slight derail there, I have no idea of how that happened.

LOL

I think someone is maybe smokin a bit too much
It's hilarious. Just took a real long right hook turn.