Go Ahead, Make My Day


Wherein Our Heroine Has Travel Plans.

I will be traveling up to New England this weekend. My mother is winning an award next week, and I am going to cheer her on. All this is well and good - I look forward to seeing friends, visiting the old homestead and avoiding the drinking of "hard water." But those who have read this site from its inception know it means another thing that potentially threatens my tenuous hold on reason: airline language.

It has been a couple of months since I have been on an airplane - which leads me to wonder if there are any new depredations being wreaked upon the English language by the Visigoths of the Seat Back and Tray Table. For once, I will actually be listening quite carefully to their instructions - I need some new material, and the airline industry seems to wring linguistic outrage from me in the most effortless fashion imaginable. Since I'm flying Southwest up to Manchester, it's entirely possible that I will get something truly creative - Southwest's employees are actually allowed to deviate from the script.

Oooh... scary.

Posted: Thursday - April 08, 2004 at 08:48 AM         | |


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