by erilaz » Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:46 pm
The "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode of Twilight Zone was on MeTV tonight, and it reminded me why I'm glad that I never had to travel by air in the 1960s. Not because a creepy-looking gremlin might have its face pressed up against my window (though that scene scared the crap out of me when I first saw it). No, it's because smoking was allowed on flights, and there weren't even smoking and non-smoking sections. Absolute hell.
When I took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya in 2007, I accidentally got on the smoking car. It was Golden Week, and all the cars were packed, so I would have had to get off the train and wait in line again to get on a non-smoking car on a later train. I would have considered it, but I didn't want to risk getting to Nagoya too late for the ℃-ute concert at 1 pm. So I spent two hours trying not to vomit. The things we do for our fandom....
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." — George Carlin