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How do you guys deal with sitting next to a random person for 13 hours on a plane? is this something only I think about as a sperg or do normies also worry?

Basically:
>want to go to Japan/Korea/Singapore
>Don`t wanna sleep or sit next to random for that long
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>>2891579
I don't, that would be awful.

I only travel when I can find cheap business class tickets, long-haul is torture otherwise.
My work allows flexible dates and I live within 2 hours of 3 major airports (europe) so I can usually find something that's only 2x-3x of what an economy ticket would be.
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>>2891579
I simply don't care. Though sometimes I sit next to cute girls so I enjoy it sometimes.
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>>2891579
thats what first class is for,
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>>2891579
Every single person is a random stranger when you're a solo traveler. Your interactions no longer occur on the basis of familiarity.
>>2891591
At least they don't bump and brush your arm while fidgeting the whole flight like men always do.
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What do you guys do if the person next to you starts talking to you whilst in flight? Like can you ask to change seats or something? How do you go to the bathroom if you're not next to it? I don't want to talk to some burger... Are you suppose to eat in front of others? The tickets I have say meal included but that's just weird to eat in front of strangers, I can see with lads at the pub but that's like once a month or year thing.

Seems really inconvenient for someone who wants to enjoy holiday, you are forced in to deal with whatever normie slop forced on you for 13+ hours.


I heard there is a train in Japan that goes under the sea, can I just take that? I much rather like standing in between the rail cabins rather than take a chance of a humiliation ritual forced to sit next to some yank.
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>>2891647
just eat dude
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>>2891579
The answer is window seat on the side you like to lean on, and civil inattention. Nobody expects you to talk on an aeroplane, except to say excuse me if you need to get into the aisle.

>>2891647
Rare to encounter someone more poorly adjusted than I am. Stand, say excuse me, and pass; put in earphones to discourage conversation (they won't want to talk, life isn't a movie); you'll be starving and will eat without inhibition.
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>>2891656
>they won't want to talk, life isn't a movie
NTA and this is a second hand anecdote from years ago, maybe my friend exaggerated but still weird. Once a friend told about how on a flight to Hong Kong, she and her friend sat on side by side seats. In front sat an older man (50s) and younger girl (late teens or early 20s). Blond with blue eyes, French or some other European accent with throaty R, father and daughter. Apparently both had a "crazy aura", father in posh suit and girl like some hippie clothes (don't remember how she described). For the whole flight the man was turning around to tell them how he's going to Hong Kong to meet his soulmate, doesn't know who but if he doesn't recognise when he sees her, then his daughter will, she was excited about her new mother and can't wait to meet her, had powerful psychic dreams she's Chinese living in Hong Kong. My friend and her friend tried to ignore but they kept talking, apparently quietly but persistently over the seats to be impossible to ignore. I don't know if she exaggerated but apparently the girl stared at her the whole flight. When the plane landed, supposedly the girl asked if she felt a connection and would marry her father. She's not Chinese and they were going to Hong Kong on a holiday, so the girl's psychic ability wasn't very good lol. Again because I wasn't there, it's possible she exaggerated how intense they were, maybe she and her friend responded to be polite, probably it wasn't really all the time, but easy to imagine how awkward it was.

Of course this shouldn't discourage anybody from travel. I think this is the only story about anything like this happening on a plane I've ever heard. On public transport and such or even on the street walking, it's much more common to have weird encounters.
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>>2891579
The first time I flew to Korea, I talked to a hafu koreaboo chick next to me. The remaining flights I've taken, I get an aisle or window seat and literally don't talk to anyone ever anymore. I just put on a movie, read a book, or sleep.
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>>2891579
Thanks, now I want to go to Europe and look for Mimussy.
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>>2891656
Manlet detected. Men of proper height cannot stand underneath the luggage bins. You first signal that you'd like to step out of your seat with an "ahem I'd like to...", wait until your neighbors have vacated their seats, then you stand up and step out to use the bathroom.
>>2891647
They won't start talking to you. Nobody talks to strangers on airplanes anymore, unless they find something about you to be interesting or attractive (which clearly does not apply in your case).
>>2891653
I have a severe constriction in my lower esophagus. On a plane I have to chew very carefully to ensure that food doesn't get stuck, because if a bit of dry chicken or pasta gets properly stuck, I'm fucked. Drinking water to force it down will only result in the water spraying out of the top of the overstretched esophagus into the back of my nose and out of my mouth, leaving me choking and spitting everywhere. It's been a long time since I last had to induce vomiting to dislodge a stuck bit of food. But yeah, an airplane is about the worst place that can happen.
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>>2891579
I mind my business? I thought most autistics were introverts and this came easily.
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I just deal with it. Usually I watch anime torrents or read, I don’t care what people im sitting by think. It’s a plane ride, you’re going somewhere just like everyone else. Get over it
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>>2891579
>is this something only I think about as a sperg or do normies also worry?
You are unique even among autists in your level of inferiority if this is something you worry about.
Just ignore them.
Or talk.
Whatever you shouldn't care and neither should I.

What do you even expect will happen when you are at your destination? Everyone is a stranger to you over there.
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>>2891579
in plane there is a humming noise constantly so loud it doesnt matter. just put headphones on and watch the plane telly
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>>2892000
>>2892001
>>2892240
>>2892314
what if you wanna sleep during the flight
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>>2892314
If a girl like this (looks like Melody Marks) sits next to me on a plane, I'd look like I'm having a heart attack. What could you do if it happens?
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>>2892454
close ya eyes nigga aint nobody gonna wake you up
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>>2892585
okay
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>>2892585
False. The flight attendants will try to wake you up for drinks or meals on a regular basis. They usually don't hit or jostle you, they'll only call "sir? sir?" and then leave you if you're genuinely passed out. IDK how people can go completely unconscious while seated upright in an economy seat. I briefly fell asleep on my last flight and then startled awake as soon as the guy next to me brushed his arm against mine, instinctively moving to protect against robbery.
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>>2892733
They are not going to do anything if it's obvious that you are in fact asleep. They know no one wants to get woken up for their shitty daycare snacks
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>>2892743
Speaking of flight attendants acting like daycare workers, does anyone remember that crazy story about this fat white guy who kept getting Chinese flight attendants to wipe his ass for him (on more than one occasion) and they reluctantly did it because I guess they were afraid of losing their jobs, and one of them even developed PTSD because this guy was just that disgusting, but then karma caught up with him and he died of a heart attack? You will be fine OP, the bar for being a courteous passenger is pretty low these days.
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>>2892743
Depends entirely on the attendant. I was trying to sleep on a business class flight with Vietnam Airlines after having just recovered from some absolutely awful food poisoning. The flight took off at 2 AM and I was absolutely fucking exhausted. This retarded attendant brought me a magazine and asked if I wanted to read it. I did not. A few minutes later, they brought me a Vietnamese newspaper. I didn't want it. Minutes after that, they brought me an English newspaper. I want to fucking sleep. Then they brought me another newspaper. I was going insane, still not feeling well, and too tired for my brain to function and this dumb fuck thought I looked like the type to read Vietnamese news at 4 AM and they would not take no for an answer.
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>>2892748
>protip; charcoal pills will stop food poisoning
drink with pints and pints water to avoid dehydration
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>>2892748
That’s what you get for flying a third world airline.
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>>2892754
just fly in your private jet bro
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>>2892746
What the fuck? Is there more context? Please tell me at least it was flights between China, Taiwan and Singapore or something? Because then most are Chinese, so it doesn't sound like he targeted them. Maybe objectively doesn't matter even if it was America or Australia or something, though then it must have been targeted. Maybe his ex was a Chinese flight attendant and had a terrible breakup, so it was a retarded form of collective revenge? Maybe he was racist? Even in the best case it was a humiliation fetish, right? Unless he really was disabled and couldn't wipe, but then he should have had a personal helper instead of subjecting flight attendants to his shit. Why was he flying so much? Work? Bucket list because he knew he will die? Please tell me at least it wasn't just to bully flight attendants...
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>>2892847
why are you simping for flight attendants? flight attendants are vapid bitches if you ever date them irl
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>>2891591

I feel like I've literally never been sat next to a cute girl on a plane. It's always like a fucking black dude or something that minds their own business. But never a hottie that I can fantasize about banging in the bathroom.
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>>2892847
https://globalnews.ca/news/4883571/flight-attendant-wipe-passengers-butt/

https://nypost.com/2019/01/21/flight-attendant-says-overweight-passenger-forced-her-to-wipe-his-butt/

can't find it now but I know he died of a heart attack later
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>>2892847
bro some men are just sick and figure out ways to abuse women it's not that deep
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>>2892748
Lol I flew business class on some random Spanish airline and the first thing they asked me was do you want us to wake you up if you are sleeping
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>>2892847
>It was planned
No anon. You don't understand the fatty brain. The only plan is more food. The fact that he can't wipe his arse is just an obstacle that appeared out of nowhere completely unexpected inbetween meals. He didn't have a fetish, he didn't have his bidet.
Any abuse or coercion that occurred originated entirely from his desire to sit down and eat more food.
Even if he was flying to thailand it was only to eat thai food. If he happened to shag a ladyboy while he was there it was only to distract himself from the incessant hunger that instilled in him an empathy for ethopians while waiting for his delivery to arrive. He was no doubt thinking of food the whole time and once it arrived he was definitely unimpressed with the portions and made a point to complain about it hoping to be compensated with food.
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>>2892850
Nobody should be forced to deal with a stranger's literal shit. As a targeted shit attack, even less.
>>2892899
Very gross. At least he was disabled and flight to a majority Chinese country, though it doesn't matter. He should have known to avoid it. After a previous flight's shit troubles, he should not have ever again been inside a plane or at least required a personal helper, at absolute minimum diapers. If somebody in such a state travels, it must be a personal responsibility to consider other people. If he even moaned when wiped, he knew but didn't care because it was his only method for opposite sex contact or he was mentally retarded. In any case, he should have stayed home. American tourists everywhere often stir shit but this is the first time I heard about it as literal.
>>2892900
Of course, still the reasons can be better or worse. "I want to force my ex to touch my shit but can't so I will do it to somebody who shares her ethnicity and occupation" is worse than "I'm physically disabled and mentally retarded so I need another person to wipe". From the wiper's perspective it's the same, however legally it is treated as different. That's why I think it should be a legal requirement for such people to have a personal helper. Then something like this won't happen.
>>2892921
Made me laugh. A fat wheelchair old man's food travel show would be funny.
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>>2891647
Autist MOGGED by AMERICAN CHADS.
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>>2891579
As someone who has solo traveled to Japan about a half-dozen of times now, I simply ignore them and mind my own business and they do the same. Maybe they ask if I can let them pass so they can go to the washroom, but that's about it.
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>>2892743
Some economy meals are pretty good imo
>Daycare Snacks
You wouldn't be a larper who's only flown domestic would you?
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>>2891579
>Get lucky and seated next to a cute girl on long haul
>She eventually falls asleep on your shoulder
>put off pissing for 3 hours because I don't want to wake her and it's nice
Happens more often than you think
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>>2892901
>>2892748
>>2892743
A few airlines I've flown with now have included little stickers in the amenity pack with 'wake me for meals'/'don't wake me' on them.
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>>2892925
>Made me laugh. A fat wheelchair old man's food travel show would be funny.
Comedies and tragedies are one and the same. This is how actual fatties think, it's sad. Even when they diet they can't escape it. Even when they lose all the weight it's still there.
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>>2892957
> get lucky
nah fuck this bitch, stupid ass hoe
> 10 hoursdrive overnight bus
> seated next to a foid mb in her late 20s, 6/10 at most, prob taller than me, atleast she isnt a landwhale
> 2 hours in this bitch falls asleep on my shoulder
> ok whatever, trying to snooze a little
> 30 minutes after this shit starts getting uncomfortable
> 1 hour later my shoulder hurts, i can feel my fucking back and shoulder tilted in her direction
> im too much of a pussy to wake her up, cant sleep in this position too
thank god this bus makes a 10 minute stop at a gas station around halfway of the drive, that bitch woke up and left and this bus had a thing that lets you move seats away from each other a little. i did just that and moved closer to window, she returned (reeked of cigarettes too) and didnt do the shoulder thing for the rest of the drive, dont think she noticed i moved seats. i swear this fucking bitch did that on purpose, no way she didnt wake up atleast once before the gas station stop, I KNOW SHE FUCKING DID AND STILL HAVENT MOVED HER FUCKING HEAD OFF MY FUCKING SHOULDER, Anyway this reinforces my position that 2d is superior, never in my life i will let a foid use my body as her pillow. I'll take dudes on the next seat, atleast they wont sleep on my shoulder bc that would be kinda gay
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>>2892973
>never in my life i will let a foid use my body as her pillow.
you did, pussy
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>>2892973
>probably taller than me
>also this is why I jack off to anime girls
Thanks for the laugh anon
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>Be on flight from Shang Hai to Heathrow.
>Young Nippon couple come to sit next to me.
>5-6/10 Nippon girl sits next to me.
>Fall asleep, wake up 2 hours later nippon girls is using my chest as a pillow, her boyfriend giving me death stare.
>Pretend to be asleep still and adjust so she can better rest and rest my head on hers.
>Angry nippon noises.
>She taps me on the chest "I sorry I sleep on you".
>Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to- No I sorry.
>Give her bf smug grin
>Fall asleep again.
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>>2893044
>5-6/10 Nippon girl sits next to me.
why so low
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>>2893044
>posting unironic fanfiction on /trv/
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>>2891579
I fly private



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