Blog: "Undesirable"
by Paul Jury

Has anybody noticed this on Travelocity?


Look carefully - there, in yellow. Among the other seats, color-coded with labels like "Available" and "Emergency Exit Row", are four seats clearly marked "Undesirable".


Ooo, can I sit there, please? Pretty please?

After some thought, it occured to me that these are the seats immediately in front of the exit row, which sometimes mean those seats don't recline, but what if you'd never been on a plane before? I have this image of seats with poisonous snakes crawling all over them, or their being prone to ejection from the plane, or there not being seats there at all, just hard wooden benches when everybody else has comfy pleather.

Also, who took the isle seats in these rows, when there were perfectly good window and isle seats available right in front of behind? Don't you feel weird putting into the "Desired Seat" box a seat that's clearly labeled "Undesirable". Are these people just non-conformists?

I desired seat 7F on this flight next month, and so will have a keen vantage point from which to point and laugh the first time the non-comformists and their unfortunate row-mates are bitten by the poisonous snakes.



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Sam:  
You know what the Internet needs? More blogs.
Paul:  
I agree. But at least our blogs are sometimes about these sweet videos we're trying to share with the world.
Sam:  
Being a writer is fun. I wonder what we would've done if we were alive a century ago.
Paul:  
Maybe we would've created videos. Viral videos.
Sam:  
I think we would've been more worried about real viruses. Like whooping cough or consumption.
Paul:  
Was that still around in 1907? I only know it from Oregon Trail.
Sam:  
I only know about Oregon Trail from when I got bored with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. The game, not the television show with Rockapella.
Paul:  
Those guys were hilarious. Definitely TiVo-worthy.
Sam:  
I have more mp3s of a capella music than I should really should admit.
Paul:  
Are you going to throw those on your iPhone? Or iPod? Or Microsoft Zune?
Sam:  
No, I already packed those with the funniest videos we've made. In case I ever bump into Steven Spielberg or Matt Groening or Jessica Alba on the street, I can show them the hilarity.
Paul:  
Jessica Alba wouldn't be interested in our efforts to go viral.
Sam:  
She would if that virus was consumption.






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