QotD: In-Flight Entertainment
How do you pass the time during a flight? What do you bring in your carry-on?
I love to fly, or rather I love being passenger especially if it is Virgin Atlantic as they have the coloured foil on the meals. How I pass my time depends on if it is a day or night flight. I am surprisingly regimented on overnight flights; I can get on the plane and fall asleep just like that. Even if I am bolt up right next to a screaming business man who has had his BlackBerry forcibly removed. On day flights I'll read, listen to my iPod, watch films and of course wait to be served with tiny portions of food. Unless of course I am flying before an exam and then I wont touch the entertainment centre and I will REVISE. On the flights to and from blightly over the Christmas holidays I managed to squish in five films:
- Stormbreaker - surprisingly enjoyable teen spy flick with great grown-up cameos:Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis...
- The Break Up - surprisingly dull and uninteresting given all the hype (not The War of the Roses)
- Trust The Man - surprisingly self-indulgient and crap film that should be avoided at all cost (Mum do not get this via pay-per view TV)
- Red Road - gripping and gritty thriller about a CCTV operator in Glasgow
- The Sentinel - awful, awful film that takes itself way too seriously
Now as for carry-on I tend to always bring too many books (at least three plus whatever I've bought in the airport lounge). I have a fear that I may finish them or need to switch genres. So plenty of books, iPod, laptop, big bottle of water, chapstick, BB & a teddy bear (for emergencies).
