There is so much bad behavior on airplanes, here are six more things you should never
do in the sky.
Hey everybody.
It's Jay Baer with another Jay Today, where I give you a piece of my mind three minutes
at a time.
Here in the home studio in Indiana, leaving early, early, early, early, early tomorrow
for a turnaround trip to Oklahoma.
As you know, I spend a lot of time on airplanes.
One of my most popular Jay Today episodes ever was a couple three weeks ago I did a
show on the six things you should never do on an airplane.
The comments on that video were so fantastic, I have been able to harvest a second batch.
So without further ado, here are the six other things you should never do on an airplane,
contributed by these fine folks.
Number one, says Chuck [Gosz], do not put your bags above a seat 4 when you are actually
seating in seat number 22.
That is 100% accurate.
There's nothing worse than that.
Then when you come into your seat in row five or whatever, there's no bag space, and then
at the end of the flight you've got to go on full on salmon, like swimming upstream,
to get your bags.
It creates all kinds of chaos, delays everybody's connections.
Put your bags over your own seat period.
Number two, from Jane Byers Goodwin, do not recline your seat.
Now I've got mixed emotions on this.
Like I understand some people want to treat their coach seat like it's a leather La-Z-Boy.
I'm okay with people reclining their seat as long as they check first.
Like just a quick glance over your shoulder or a, "Hey, is it okay if I put this back
a couple of inches," is fine.
I've had way too many instances where my laptop screen almost snapped because people are just
like throwing it back like nobody is behind them.
Number three, from my friend Josh [Lisney], use headphones.
That just seems like common sense.
If you are playing something with noise, use headphones.
I cannot tell you how often this rule is violated, especially I find in the boarding area where
somehow people feel like noise doesn't matter or rules are out the window.
I saw a kid the other day playing like some sort of crazy iPad game full volume.
I mean full volume.
Everybody within a 30 foot radius was essentially playing the same game.
Ridiculous!
Number four, from James Welch, and man, I love this one.
Do not use your seat or somebody else's seat as a handhold.
Man, I cannot tell you how annoying it is when people are going like from seat to seat
and like propelling themselves through the plane, like sling-shotting up the aisle.
Watch the flight attendants.
They don't do that.
They're not using the seat rests or head rests to like jimmy their way up and down the aisles.
Like stand on your own feet.
It's just laziness.
The fifth one, from Mark Traphagen, is if you have a seat, sit in your seat.
Like you come in and somebody is sitting in your seat, you have the aisle, they have the
middle, and they sit on the aisle.
You come like, "Oh, you can have my seat."
It's like, "No Jack, I actually booked aisle or window for a purpose, and just because
you got there 10 seconds before I got there doesn't mean you can have my seat," unless
of course you're on Southwest.
Number six, for me, one that I forgot to share with you in the first batch is do not leave
your trash in the seat back pocket.
Like I know sometimes we forget a wrapper or whatever.
But they make like 1,500 announcements, and they're coming by with trash bags every 45
seconds.
That should be probably be your cue.
But I got to tell you, I've kind of blocked out all the horrors that I have found in seat
back pockets over the years, including -- and ladies and gentlemen I'm not making this up
-- a diaper.
I found a diaper in a seat back pocket.
Pick up your trash.
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Fly safe, fly courteous.