There were two news articles that caught my eye today. One about the Jet Blue flight attendant who pulled a Snagglepuss (exit - stage left) and another about belly bulge.
And it occurred to me that I had unwittingly discovered the underlying cause for irritable airline passenger syndrome (IASP).
Results of a study on waist sizes indicates that if your pants are tight you're going to die at an earlier age than your slim and trim neighbor (yeah, I know, news flash).
Even a person with an average waistline finds airline seats a snug fit. Feeling those stubby arms of airline seats pressing against their girth, passengers who thought they had long lives ahead of them are suddenly fearful that their earthly existence is slipping away at double and triple time speed.
And how do those panicked passengers deal with a suddenly shortening life span? They take out their frustrations on the poor flight attendants. They demand drinks, pillows, blankets, napkins - because after all they're practically on their death bed.
Already stressed out, but free to move around the cabin unlike the slowly suffocating passengers, the flight attendants seek release from their unanticipated indoctrination into intensive caring. That release comes in the form of a little handle that deploys the emergency exit chute.
Voila' the flight attendant exits to the spacious outdoors- leaving the grumpy, space challenged airline passenger to suffer in unattended agony.
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