Top Ten Things I Hate About Air Travel

I am writing from the fine state of Florida, but more on that later. On the way here, I developed a list. I adore travel, but air travel has some definite downsides and I encountered each and every one of them on this trip. I found that it lowered my blood pressure to write about these things.

Without further ado:

1. People who cough in the airport or on the plane without covering their mouth, especially when they cough on my hair or my back or in the air I'm about to walk through;
2. People who do not help streamline the security process by taking off their shoes or removing required items from their bags;
3. TSA personnel who apply different "clothing rules" to men and women, forcing women to disrobe under conditions when men are allowed to pass without doing so;
4. Airline personnel who selectively apply the baggage size rules;
   
5. People who place all their bags in the overhead bins without putting any bag under the seat in front of them;
6. People who automatically recline their seats even when they are not sleeping;
7. People who make calls on their cell phones from the plane, just to say, "I'm on the plane";
8. Parents whose children pick their noses, depositing the product on the plane;
9. People who hold up the plane by arriving incredibly late; and
10. Listening to "Generic White Guy Talk," with comments like, "You'll be sitting on your porch with a shotgun."