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The flight attendants did nothing wrong.

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I'm starting a social media campaign to hurt the airline financially because they didn't provide a gluten-free organic lactose-free vegan low-fat meal option for my service rhino. And then I overheard two flight attendants sounding annoyed with my demands so I published the home phone number of the airline CEO. Fucking attention-whores.

Ever read Stephen King's book "The Cell", where people's brains are damaged by cell phones? Look for it in the non-fiction section.

I was following him until he started talking about flaps. From that on is became really complicated.

Aren't flight attendants more qualified at this than random passengers? They gotta go through some sort of basic emergency training...

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That must have been kind of a mixed blessing for the flight attendant. You're no longer guilty of starting a horrible disease, but people now suspect you of having inappropriate relations with Bobo the chimp.

Starting to wonder if this is now part of the interview at southwest.

"Ok, so you're clearly qualified for this... years of flight attendant experience, first aid courses, good customer service ratings. congratulations! Just drop us a rhyme or two and you're hired"

@ChaosEngine
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I live in Japan and if I were to dive under my desk every time there was an earthquake, I'd be under there at least 3 times a day. Since the 2011 earthquake we've had constant aftershocks, some as strong as 5 and 6 on the Richter scale (which makes the panic seen over California's most recent quake somewhat amusing).

ChaosEngine is correct, you can gauge how bad the earthquake is by the amount of shaking. On March 3rd, 2011--the only time I have actually dived under a table during an earthquake--plates were flying off my kitchen shelves and shattering on the floor.

That said, Japan is a country that is truly prepared for quakes. Any big items you buy like refrigerators or big screen TVs usually come with fasteners to bolt them down so they don't fall over during a quake. The buildings here are incredibly well-engineered to survive a severe quake--very few people during the 3.11 quake were killed by collapsing structures.

Most other countries aren't that prepared. If I were vacationing in a developing country and a quake struck I would probably get the hell out of the building as soon as possible regardless of if it seemed small because I wouldn't trust the engineering to be as sound as it is here.

tldr:

You're both right. You need to use your experience and critical thinking to decide the best course of action in an emergency. And if you don't have any experience with that particular emergency, then you need to trust the people who do have experience to know what they are doing and follow them. For example, if I were ever in an airplane crash the first person I'd look for is the flight attendant to see what they were doing and follow their lead.

Is it just me or does it sound like the flight attendant at the beginning says "For dickheads we've been flying passengers...". I know she's saying "decades" but still...

Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday on a flight.

One thing I've noticed as a sufferer of ARF is that flight attendants don't really greet you when you board a plane. They greet everyone in front, then just kinda skip you, then greet everyone else.

I least I give their jowls a rest from their horizontal smile face that got burned in from doing their job for too long