...The one request that I rarely comply with is to close my window shade to view the Movie......Why would I want to do that, when I often find the scenery out the window more entertaining than most of the garbage they put on the video screens?...... Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- Nick Laflamme <dplaflamme@alumni.nd.edu> wrote: > At 09:20 PM 2/19/2003 -0800, Mark Panic wrote: > >here a question suppose you are deaf and you want > to watch the In-flight > >movie what would you do? those movies are not > captioned at all.. how > >would you hear the movie? and yes this is airline > related.. > > I'd make a point of switching from a one long flight > to two short flights > so that neither of my flights had a movie on it. > Instead of a JFK-LAX > non-stop, I'd go JFK to ORD/STL/DFW/DEN and then on > to LAX. (Or, maybe, ISP > to BWI to BNA to MCI to PHX to LAX, but only if I > was on LUV. :-) ) > > And I'd bring a book instead of just sitting there, > whining and moping. Or > I'd work the cross-word puzzle in the in-flight > magazine. > > After all, what did people do before in-flight > movies? > > Airlines make lots of various accommodations for > lots of various > impairments, but an in-flight movie is not a basic > human right that that > must be protected at all costs. > > Will the plaintiff be happier if the airlines just > decide to do away with > all in-flight movies? Then we'd all be as miserable > as he apparently is. > And, as a bonus, the rest of us would have one > person to focus our > discontent upon. :-) > > The world is not fair. People ought to learn to deal > with that instead of > trying desperate to even every playing surface they > step onto. And they > ought to be damned thankful that a non-captioned > in-flight movie is the > worst thing they encounter in a month. > > Heartless in Vienna __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/