Well.
Here we go again.

Airlines, as you know, are always looking for a way to grab a few more bucks.

For us in Hawaii, there’s no other way to wonderful Las Vegas – or anywhere – unless we pony up and hop a flight.

That means paying the bag fees, leg room fees, boarding order upgrades, food and whatever else is the charge du jour.

But the holy grail for an airline is jamming more paying customers on a plane.

Ideas to accomplish this float up from the evil minds of airlines almost weekly.

I’ve bitched before about smaller restrooms and Airbus’ crazy bicycle seating idea.

That’s it on the left in case you rather not expend the energy to click the link.

Now, let’s add this to the manure pile…

Zodiac Seats, the leading maker of airline seats, has filed a patent for a new type of seat.

Up front – it’s stupid.

People don’t think enough out-of-the box.

Instead of one monumental crappy idea, the best they can do is a series of little dumb ones.

Maybe, just maybe, the big one has finally hit.
New seating arrangement.
Yup, you’d be sitting staring at someone else for whatever time it takes to get you where you’re going.

It brings new meaning to “in your face”.

I’ve given this more than my usual amount of thought.
I can’t come up with anything positive about it.

With the nut-case wackos causing problems on planes now – can you imagine what this will lead to?

Let’s discuss…

The scientists say when some weirdo is isolated from the rest of society with a small group of people jammed in a plane and he or she tends to find the most good-looking person there to be exaggeratedly hot…or irritating.

Let the fight begin.

There’s more.

The company’s patent (see it here) says shoulder room will be a lot less with the new design.

Honesty is always the best policy, even if makes us look really dumb.

In fact the patent drawing shows your hand almost resting in your neighbor’s lap.

That should make for some fun times at 30-thousand feet.

And if you’re in the middle and have to go potty – everybody has to move.
Heh.

Fat chance.

Will this actually happen?
Probably not but then it was real stupid in the first place to come up with the idea.

One stupid thing generally leads to another.

Now everyone can be grumpy like me.