TomBecker.net

An Open Letter to the Annoying Guy on the Plane

Hi,

You prolly didn't notice me that much since you were absorbed in your conversation and what not but I was the guy sitting one row back and one row over from you on the plane from Minneapolis to Richmond this weekend. I just wanted to let you know that the other people around you, excluding maybe the person who you were talking to, do not care how great you think you are.

I know you worked on the Obama campaign here in Richmond and that you are supposedly at the top of your Ecology class (a point you made several times), but truthfully I really don't care. I am also a little confused on why you feel the need to announce the fact to the whole back half of the plane.

I first saw you in the actual airport when you pulled out your uber-trendy laptop for all to see. And I could tell, just by looking at you, that we prolly wouldn't get along. So imagine my surprise when you proved me right, by constantly telling the person sitting in front of me how great you were. And the comment that really sealed the deal for me not liking you was "2nd graders do not have any 'political self-awareness'." What the heck kinda jacka$$ed comment is that. They are in second grade, setting aside the the whole 'self-awareness' part of the comment. Second graders are just learning how to tell time (according to the VA Standards of Learning) do you really expect them to understand the complexities that is the American government?

So I just wanted to let you know that while you think you're great and all your pseudo-intellectual comments may impress some, I was not impressed.

I am glad that you made a personal connection with someone on the plane, and that the two and a half hours flew by for you while talking to her. My having to listen to you over my headphones made that flight feel longer than the time my sister dragged me to see the movie Titanic.

Thanks for understanding,
~tom

Labels: rant

posted by Tom Becker at 7/07/2008