Dennis and List, In the Levey column, someone had written in to Bob Levey describing his agony as the 30 minutes did indeed turn into an hour and a half wait. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47577-2002Aug5.html john On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Dennis W Zeuch wrote: > In a message dated 8/6/02 4:26:05 PM !!!First Boot!!!, kurtzke@up.edu writes: > > << let us reason together, but first, let me go to the bathroom. >> > > Just wondering....what if you really could not "hold it" . dont forget that > 30 min rule can turn into 2 hours with holding patterns and ramp holds > waiting for a gate etc etc. > If you let go all over their seats--could you be charged with something? If > you had no choice what are you to do? Get up and be arrested and beaten up > - or pee in the isle and be embarrassed. > Wouldnt this delay lots of flights for cleaning etc? Maybe we should all do > it and force some serious thinking about quasi-safety ideas like this one. > Dennis > -- John F. Kurtzke, C.S.C. Department of Mathematics 278 Buckley Center University of Portland Portland, OR 97203 503-943-7377 kurtzke@up.edu