Lemmings

Back in the early days of Nintendo there was a game titled Lemmings.
Lemmings were little creatures that blindly followed one another into either safety or death.
The idea of the game was to keep the Lemmings from falling into a great abyss.

Put real live people on an airplane and they turn into Lemmings.

At the end of a flight, as the airplane lands at its destination, the steward or stewardess announces the arrival over the intercom and instructs everyone to remain seated until the plane has come to a complete stop.

Whereupon at least a half dozen people immediately jump from their seats while the plane is still moving. And once those first half dozen are on their feet, the majority of the passengers follow suit.

.... so that they can all stand in the aisle craning their necks to see what the person in the very front is doing.

If I were a steward, I'd be tempted to open the door and give the first person a helping shove to the tarmac below - just to see if the rest would follow.

Smart assing aside, WHY do people jump out of their seats like that? Where do they think they're going to go? And why do they start complaining when the line doesn't move foward the very second that the plane's forward momentum stops.

A passenger can get at least an additional twelve pages of a book read between initial touchdown and the time the door finally opens.