The slob-to-non-slob ratio continues to rise.

In case you missed it, last month on a Continental flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, a man stood up mid-flight and urinated on the woman sitting in the seat in front of him.

He pled guilty to assault charges in Federal court and got three weeks in jail. (Yes, commit a crime on an airplane in interstate commerce, and it's a federal crime.)

I have never had a fellow passenger urinate on me, not on any form of transport, but with the slobby people one encounters in one's travels, I assume it is only a matter of time. I did once have the obese woman sitting next to me change her baby's diaper on the tray table in front of her. That may have been the low point in my traveling experience. She didn't get any on me, as far as I know.

A nice thing about long-distance travel on the train is, if you want to, you can arrange it so you don't have to deal with any of your fellow travelers at all.

Posted: Wed - April 22, 2009 at 07:30 PM

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