I've gotten really good at not beginning any conversation at the beginning of any flight over 2 hours. Oh that lesson was quick to learn when the person sitting next to me starting talking 10 minutes in on the flight to Hong Kong and never shut up.
Now I gladly talk for the last 20 minutes or so of any flight, but I pretty much stay with a pleasing grunt before then. There's the occasional exception, but man do you have to be careful!
ita, I'm so curious - what made her a great conversationalist in your eyes? Tone? Content?
The last time I fly, guy sat down next to me, said "Looks like we're going to be roommates for this flight." I looked up from me book and said, "
If
we survive." and went back to reading.
Sue, I would have started laughing hysterically and YOU WOULD NEVER BE SAFE FROM ME. But that's cause that's my humor too...
ita, I'm so curious - what made her a great conversationalist in your eyes? Tone? Content?
Content. She never ran out of really good, on topic questions, and they were all about him, but not in a pushy way. Anything he said, she had a good question about it. How the fuck she could keep doing that is beyond me.
I have only had one guy hit on me on a plane. He actually left his seat to come sit near me, to tell me he'd noticed me laughing in the departure lounge over something I was reading. Another flight-long conversation, with the ultimate end that he sent me the Book of Mormon.
Yeah.
I had a cousin start up a conversation with a guy (now famous, then no one) in the departure lounge, and then he said he'd see her on the plane. She said "No, not unless you're in first class!" and then upgraded him before he boarded and got him the seat next to her.
I don't think she got laid out of it, but I did (NOT WITH HIM--with his friend), so it's one of my favourite meet cutes. I remember when he came over to visit, her mother just stared at him and said "Well, he's goodlooking." He took it pretty well.
You underestimate my powers of repellant, sara.
Well, I know you here. As a strange person on a plane...
Watch, we'll end up on the same plane...
Sara's on fire when she travels. I wouldn't bet against her, seriously.
I don't mean to be. It just happens. It's the no commitment clause or something. Caution, meet wind.
