Hostages on Southwest Airlines
We (the kids and I) were held hostage on Southwest Airlines the moment the plane's cabin door closed. "Flight attendants cross-check. All personal electronic devices must be turned off."
Now what?! No Internet, no email - and no text messaging for two hours!
Sleep?
Talk? What about? Nah.
Take cool pictures?
One or two. ......We're bored.
Ha! What about a game?
Let's play, Find the stupidest thing for sale in Sky Mall magazine...
Here's how you, blog reader, can play too:
Below, are the stupidest items we found in Sky Mall. Now, YOU pick: Which ones we REALLY thought were stupid and which ones we (Steve) actually liked. For each number guess: Steve thought it Stupid or Steve Wants It. Good Luck!
Click on the image to read:
| 1. |  |
Lung excerciser. (the first one is always easy) |
| 2. |  |
Laser guided pool que. |
| 3. |  |
Maze shaped brownie pan. Every brownie gets a crusty1 edge. |
| 4. |  |
Slippers with headlights. |
| 5. |  |
Head traction gear. (Not for use on slippery surfaces.) |
| 6. |  |
Antlers for a pickup truck. (Really, what other vehickle would you put them on?) |
| 7. |  |
Play-the-guitar-with-one-finger device. |
| 8. |  |
Star shaped baby blanket. |
| 9. |  |
Inflatable airline seat lap pillow. |
| 10. |  |
A GPS to remember where the car is parked. |
ANSWERS
1. pıdnʇs
Plus, it's conveniently small enough to carry around and look stupid using it.
2. pıdnʇs
Unless the que ball is made of glass and defies the laws of optics, how exactly could this work?! Either it's stupid or I am. I bet they sell lots of them.
3. ¡ʇı ʇuɐʍ ı
I think it's clever.
4. pıdnʇs
Turn on a light for heaven's sake.
5. pıdnʇs
Jacob thought this was rediculous. Can you imagine setting up this contraption - getting it the right length?
6. pıdnʇs
Enough said.
7. ˙ʇı ʇuɐʍ p,ı
That is, if I owned a guitar. I do own a banjo. It's automatically in the key of G, so it's not difficult to play a dozen easy bluegrass songs. Not so the guitar.
8. ǝuo pɐɥ ʎlqɐqoɹd
Jacob thought the star-shaped baby outfit was stupid. Apparently, he never saw all his pictures when he was little. I thought the outfit was cute.
9. pıdnʇs
I do sleep - nearly every time I'm trapped on a flight. But, seriously, can you imagine inflating this thing? Is it possible to be out of breath, embarassed and sleepy? Then you'd have to deflate it... What happens when the person in front reclines into you? This is REALLY stupid!
10. ¡ʇı ǝʌɐɥ ɐʇʇoƃ
I don't want this thing in my pocket, but I can image where it would prove handy.
If ever you feel held hostage on an airline flight, read the Sky Mall. Time may escape you!
UPDATE
Amtrak ALSO has Sky Mall, except it's called Travel Mall!
Good news! You probably won't care to look at it. Not only can you use your cell phone to talk and send text messages, but there's also a wall outlet to plug in a laptop computer!
You can get up and walk around. Enjoy yourself in the cafe car...
I'm actually using wireless Internet and updating this blog entry on the train to New York City! It seemed like the ride was only 30 minutes from Aberdeen, Maryland, just north of Baltimore. It actually took about 2 hours.
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11/28/2008 4:22 PM
Stephen T. Wilson wrote:
...If I just offended you, humble blog reader, forgive me and stop here.
So, you're saying that I should return my headlight slippers? But just think how PRACTICAl they are! I mean, come on - it's just like the headlights on the vacuum cleaner - where would we be without them?!
And I happen to like my truck antlers. I might like them more if they were bolted onto the front of a truck rather than my Saturn sedan, but hey, they make a statement.
Actually, I'm on board with your evaluation. I think the star baby is cute - but I'm a girl. I like the inventive nature of the brownie pan, but will admit that I'm a "chewy-center" kind of girl and would therefore find it irritating to have all edges. But still - props for ingenuity.
I'm amazed that you didn't find the amazing "Singing Elvis Bust". It's SO practical, stylish (not at all tacky) and it's only $199. How could you pass that up?!!!
Sounds like you four had a wonderful time! Blessings on your return trip - and don't forget to seek out the Elvis!
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What a kick, but I'm not sure how you missed the Sumo-wrestler-table garden furniture. It's even better than the singing Elvis. Talk about tacky AND stupid and NO, this is not a hidden plea for one and NO I don't already own one. Of course, there's always the life-sized, Egyptian, sarcophagus. (Somebody actually buys these things because when we were house-hunting, we were in a house that sported two, count them - two, in their living room. And that would be a NO, I don't have nor want one.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Marya
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