Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Questioning Equality

During a recent trip on a Scandinavian airline, H and I wondered how social democratic countries that promote making everybody equal can then offer multi class cabins on the aircraft?  Even if business class only offers the same seating as economy but with the provision of free snacks.  We were surprised to see that countries whose fiscal policies have such a focus on redistribution of wealth to equalize the quality of life, and even the lifestyles, of everybody, can then offer a service that blatantly emphasizes class and wealth divides.  Unless of course, everybody's economy class tickets cost a bit more than necessary to enable those in business class to pay the same, or less, for more.

All was well though; once the ground crew came off of their government mandated break and loaded the luggage onto the plane, we were able to reach our next destination only about two hours late.  Again, laws that protect the employee but not the customer, or perhaps even the employer, is that fair in the Nordic model?

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Leaving on a [Many] Jet Plane[s]

H and I are saying hooroo to Australia and moving on to our next home overseas.  This means that I'll have to catch-up on my severe backlog of Australia postings from someplace other than Australia.  It also means that I get to play excited bathroom game in the Dubai Airport.  Excited bathroom game involves guessing what's behind each stall door: toilet or squat hole.

Full points are given for a correct blind guess and 75% of points are awarded for a correct guess based on observing who is exiting the stalls.  Half points are awarded based on observing who is entering the stalls as a lot of times Westerners will reveal the squat locations by gasping and shaking their heads when they push open the stall door, resuming their place in the queue to wait for the next available stall, or simply saying, "this is gross."

Another fun area of play for excited bathroom game is seeing just how many women will emerge from a single squat stall at one time.  I'm not quite sure what they all do in their together.  Maybe assist with holding up one another's voluminous burkas?

Thank goodness we have an eleven hour layover.  I couldn't bear to have a limited timeframe to play in.

So toodaloo kangaroos, I'll check-in once I arrive on the other side of the globe...literally.