Tuesday, April 25, 2006

STAND TALL

(Burton Cummings)

You won't belileve this.

I don't either.

It's in the paper today.

Airbus industries has proposed a new way for air travelers to enjoy their flights:

STANDING. Huh? Oh yes, pack the sardine can full. You'd have a backboard to stand against and be somehow bound into it. Turns out there are no rules about actually having to sit, just to be restrained.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

This is so weird, any wise cracks I might make pale under the harsh light of such an idea. Wonder if they'd give you a tiny butt ledge? But then how would that be positioned? One man's butt ledge is another's lumbar support and another's spine crusher. No butt ledge then.

Laptop computers wouldn't work. No lap.

So far no airline has picked up on this option but you have to know there will be meetings about this very topic in airline boardrooms where the term "fiduciary responsibility" will stand up by itself, unrestrained.

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