101 Things to do Airplane Style

Sorry I stopped updating all the sudden but my mom came to play with me for a week and we were just too busy. There goes my streak I had going.

Anyways, (I realize I say that a lot these days) I was cleaning out an old spiral today and found a printed email I hadn’t seen in years. My best friend from high school, Amanda, and I once made a list of ‘101 things to do on an airplane’. Well, almost, we only made it to number 60. It brought back some good memories and made me laugh. So I thought I would share…

**Disclaimer – I can’t guarantee all of these are legal or even sane to do but funny to think about

1. Laugh loudly and constantly

2. Make faces at people

3. Stare at people across the isle

4. Play with the lights over and over

5. Ask for blankets over and over till you have ten, then through them into the isle and yell ‘I’m done!’

6. As for you soda CAN to be refilled

7. Sit next to a stranger and grab their hand during takeoff and landing

8. Play I spy and keep saying (loudly) the same stuff over and over…ex. Mountain, sky, cloud

9. Bounce in your seat (have one person go up and your friend go down, switch)

10. Have one person sit in the front of the plane and the other in the back and throw paper air planes to each other

11. Grab your tray and shake it while saying, ‘There’s an earthquake’ (make sure this is not during turbulence)

12. Put your tray table up and down every few minutes

13. Turn around and glare at everyone in the plane every few minutes

14. Every few minutes put your seat back

15. When flying over clouds say, ‘Look! It snowed a lot’.

16. When flying during a lightning storm, complain that the lights won’t stay on outside

17. Throw peanuts at the person two rows in front of you

18. Sing ‘John Jacob Jingle Hymer Smith’ repeatedly

19. When flying over clouds say, ‘Look mom, that’s where cotton comes from’.

20. Throw ice

21. Complain to the flight attendant that your window is broken and won’t roll down

22. Push the flight attendant button and when she comes say you didn’t push the button, do repeatedly

23. Cry when taking off and landing and say ‘Jonny used to do this with me’

24. When getting off exclaim loudly ‘why didn’t we use the slide?’

25. Open and close the window cover repeatedly

26. Turn headphones on and start head banging [with an air guitar]

27. Shout ‘quick! Open the window, I got to barf!’

28. Pace the isle once the seat belt sign is off

29. Every time the captain speaks shout out what he said like a parrot

30. On a full flight, get up and go to the bathroom. When you come back complain you can’t find your seat and insist someone has taken it.

31. Stare at the person next to you and pretend to draw them

32. When a stranger is in the window seat, lean way over and look out

33. When after receiving your drink complain that there is too much altitude in it

34. When getting on, ask if it is a connecting flight only

35. Close your window and put on your sunglasses then complain that it is still too bright in the plane

36. When you have a digital camera, insist on take a picture with everyone in the plane and say it’s for your scrapbook to show everyone you met

37. When flying through turbulence shout, ‘those dang pot holes! I told them to fix the road!’

38. TP the bathroom and have a friend go in later and then come out and yell ‘everyone, we got TPed’

39. Ask for a deck of cards and open it then should ’52 card pick up!’ launch over everyone and leave cards be

40. Play footsie with the person next you (if it is a stranger)

41. When a tall clouds comes by shout, ‘Iceberg ahead! Turn Turn’

42. Tell the flight attendant when you get on that you’re going to propose and when the time comes, propose to a teddy bear (or a complete stranger)

43. Pretend to fall asleep on the person next you and snore really loud

44. Call the flight attendant and ask ‘are we there yet?’ do this repeatedly

45. Talk to the person next you nonstop in a fast jibbish voice

46. Ask the flight attendant where babies come from

47. Throw a temper tantrum

48. Take your seat cushion and place the isle muttering ‘Gonna die, gonna die, we’re all gonna die’

49. Sing when you take off ‘on the road again, I can’t wait to get on the road again’ and during landing ‘Cause I’m free, Free falling’

50. Complain loudly to the flight attendant that the person next to you isn’t wearing any deodorant and has BO.

51. Ask the person in the exit row if they can move aside so you can step outside and take a smoke

52. Play hide and seek or tag

53. Read your book out loud like a kindergarten teacher

54. Pretend to be the flight attendant

55. Go around saying you are part of the airplane quartet and ask if they would like a complementary song

56. Try to get the wave going

57. Imitate the ads in the magazines

58. Have a pillow fight

59. Build a fort with your blanks and seat (I actually did this for my nephew on our way to Hawaii, it was just the two of us on the isle)

60. Sing popular songs and see how many people join in

I think it would be fun to finish this list. If you have some to add, leave it in a comment and I'll add them to the post. With credit of couse.