In my history of traveling, I think I have sat next to an interesting person twice. The odds are really low.

I find myself sitting next to an interesting person quite often. Because I bring them with me.

The last time I flew I sat next to someone wearing this hat. [link]

bt, oh that I could do that often!

In my history of traveling, I think I have sat next to an interesting person twice. The odds are really low.

I'm sure I've sat next to plenty, but I'll never know.

Trains seem much more conducive to conversation -- at least while I was in England, but even the Amtrak that I took a lot back in college had some good conversations.

Of course, my hearing was better then. At least then I can claim (perhaps with a wee bit exaggeration) that my hearing loss makes it hard to understand without shouting.

I'm still not quite used to living in a town this small -- one of the top headlines in the local paper is that a plane had to make an emergency landing at the local airport last night. Nobody injured, doesn't seem like anything all that remarkable, just that a plane flying from Cleveland to NY had some kind of mechanical problem and had to land somewhere, and this was the closest somewhere. The only headlines above it are Sandusky news and an ongoing case where a bunch of people are charged with supplying alcohol to a minor after an undergrad got drunk and fell out a window and was pretty badly injured a few months ago.

Damn kids always ruining it for the other kids....

I'm sure I've sat next to plenty, but I'll never know.

That one. I'm pretty sure my mother has told me that she'll start talking to her seatmate when they are landing -- so there's some time, but not too much.

I have cousins who seem to always strike up business relationships with the people they sit next to--they do filter by first class, for one, but what they don't seem to realise is that, at least with the ones I was eventually exposed to, they were smooth talkers with no product. And that includes my cousins--it was like finding like, and no actual work was done or goods exchanged as a result--just a bunch of blowhards.

I'm sure this will end well - someone has started a thread on one of the local parenting listservs with the subject line "Expierence with enrolling non-vaccinated children in Public schools" and starts off their email with "Not looking to start a debate or a discussion about vaccinations." Cue giant vaccine flame war in three...two...