Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for November 10, 2023

Not as cheap as the fare for the person you’re sitting on.

Real bad news is he’s wearing the red shirt

She might not mind so much, especially if he’s better looking than you.

Hopefully, I get to sit on the pretty blonde. You get the fat guy.

Given a choice, I’d rather be the sitter than the sat upon.

Bob Newhart did a stand-up routine, recorded in 1960, about “The Mrs. Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company,” an extremely low-cost airline. They cut costs by doing without what the pilot referred to as “frills and extras.” These frills and extras included radar, maintenance work, any seats for the passengers, and a flight crew that knew for sure which button would start the engines again if they stopped unexpectedly in mid-flight. “It’s uh… the third button on the left, I think, Harry. Hold it Harry… the cabin lights are going out, uh… try the third button on the right.”

For an upgrade fee, you get to pick the lap.

I wonder if they’d do that with little babies…“here, hold on to my crying baby for the next few hours”…lol!!

Oh, you get your own seat. But that seat is sitting in someone lap. They actually have “floated” the idea of tiered seating on airliners.

It’s Frontier Airlines!

That’d be something I would get stuck booking.

I wonder if those are cheaper than the “have someone sit in your lap” seats.