It's you... Not Me

and you are on a small plane SHUT UP! This is literally the first time I have been so annoyed with someone on a plane that I almost asked them to quiet down. There was a guy next to a woman in row 2 (seats D and F) on flight 4027 from Charlotte, NC to Milwaukee, WI who yapped his mouth so damn loud the whole flight I thought I was going to go crazy (I'm the same person who persevered through an eight hour flight with a crying kid a few rows in front of me - and I wasn't nearly as annoyed as I was tonight). It isn't so much what he talked about (although I hope to god he and the woman next to him were drunk - otherwise they were idiots), it is the fact that it was loud enough to disturb me from being able to read (nothing intellectual, mind you, so it should have been easy for me to ignore the guy). I'm so glad I downloaded a few video podcasts at the hotel before leaving (thank you Alex and Kevin)... The moral of the story, if you have never learned to use your inside voice, the time to do so is before you board a plane filled with people who may not want to listen to your dialogue (and are praying the whole time that you go mute).