23 votes

Somebody thought it was a good idea to put a touchscreen with kids games on my head

Tags: rant, airlines

Rant: I just got off a very long overnight flight and was kept up all night by kids (and an adult) playing touchscreen games on the back of my headrest. It’s like someone tapping you on the back of the head constantly.

This is the third time this has happened to me.

Who tf thought this was a good idea??? Does this drive anyone else crazy?

I mean the touchscreen ui makes sense for starting movies, etc... but putting games on it seems totally nuts to me. Am I alone in this opinion?

8 comments

  1. [6]
    CedarMadness
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    They're usually garbage resistive touchscreens too, so you have to give it some force to get it to recognize your touches.

    They're usually garbage resistive touchscreens too, so you have to give it some force to get it to recognize your touches.

    13 votes
    1. [5]
      Neverland
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      super edit: Sorry ~CedarMadness, I meant to reply to ~elcuello, but am too tired to use a website apparently. I did say something after a while. But I’ve been taking care of a kid his age recently...

      super edit: Sorry ~CedarMadness, I meant to reply to ~elcuello, but am too tired to use a website apparently.

      I did say something after a while. But I’ve been taking care of a kid his age recently and if you give them the video game crack, they seem to act like little crackheads for a few minutes after it gets taken away. So I did wait a while this time, hoping he would stop with my direct glare into his eyes between the seat-backs, mom was crashed out by the time I was ready to say something, and I have a lot of patience for sleepy parents. I honestly don’t know how parents do it.

      Anyway, I saw sleeping Mom, I don’t like speaking to random folks’ kids directly, so I tried the glare thing a couple times, it would work, I’d fall asleep, then tap tap tap tap.

      I 100% blame whomever chose to put touchscreen kiddie crack on the back of my all of our heads.

      Edit: Otherwise, it was such a great flight on one of the last 747 routes from the USA.. I got an exit row aisle for free by being nice, there was magically no one in the seat next to me, it was going to be perfect. I am going to write an actual letter to the airline about the idiocy of touchscreen games on passengers’ heads. But I’m going to wait a few days so that the letter is not 50% foul language.

      3 votes
      1. [4]
        DanBC
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        Wait, if the seat next to you was empty why didn't you swap into that one?

        Wait, if the seat next to you was empty why didn't you swap into that one?

        1 vote
        1. [3]
          Neverland
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          They are all actually connected enough to where a significant tap minorly "thuds" the whole row. It's not jarring, just enough to wake me up many times. I was in the seat next to the biggest...

          They are all actually connected enough to where a significant tap minorly "thuds" the whole row. It's not jarring, just enough to wake me up many times. I was in the seat next to the biggest tapper. But at one point, mom and 2 kids were tapping, then just 2 kids. Mom was behind me. Whole row was FUBAR man. :) I've been up for 26 hours now, I probably need to sleep.

          1 vote
          1. [2]
            nic
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            Why not offer to switch seats with the mum and kid.

            Why not offer to switch seats with the mum and kid.

            1. Neverland
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              It never occurred to me, but they had 3 people, I had two empty seats. The empty seat was being enjoyed by my row-mate as well.

              It never occurred to me, but they had 3 people, I had two empty seats. The empty seat was being enjoyed by my row-mate as well.

  2. elcuello
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    I haven't experienced it but that would drive me crazy too. No way I would just let that fly without telling them in a nice way. That idea wasn't thought through at all.

    I haven't experienced it but that would drive me crazy too. No way I would just let that fly without telling them in a nice way. That idea wasn't thought through at all.

    4 votes
  3. ghostsplosion
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    I am very irritable as it is, and this would have pushed me over the fucking edge. I'd have definitely piped up to the parents.

    I am very irritable as it is, and this would have pushed me over the fucking edge. I'd have definitely piped up to the parents.

    3 votes