Leavin' on a jet plane

Over the past few days it’s been difficult to post as I’ve been trying to settle in at home. On my way from Bristol I spent a total of thirteen hours in transit. This includes sitting around and waiting in several different places. Normally waiting in an airport while waiting for your gate to be announced is one of the most draining experiences of travel. Fortunately I found a new sitting area that had just been built and tucked away in a corner, so no one actually knew it was there, people just sort of stumbled across it with a look of wonder and surprise. I actually had a fairly pleasant and calm journey at every turn. I kept waiting for something to go wrong but my expectations were always exceeded. Then came the crowning gem of my entire trip: the Air India flight safety video.
Let me begin by saying that Air India is an amazing airline. There were tons of in-flight movie and t.v. options, the food was amazing, the flight was fairly empty, my bags weren’t lost, and the ticket was extremely affordable. There was even a fun comedy animation made special by Air India. They tried to pass it off as a flight safety video, but I knew better. It began with a strange 3D animation of a what I’m going to presume was a human male, walking down the isle of what could have been an air plane. What followed was a thrilling tale of face masks and life jackets in which we meet his similarly deformed 3D wife and child. As luck would have it, it was a double feature! A second video, shot in the same style, showed the inner workings of the plane’s toilet. We learned where to flush, how to distinguish ‘occupied’ from ‘unoccupied’, ‘hot’ from ‘cold’ and a somewhat graphic representation of which items were inappropriate to flush down the toilet.
This video went on for about seven minutes, all the while narrated in sign-language in the upper right-hand corner. I was so mesmerized by this cinematic masterpiece that I didn’t realize it was being narrated in Hindi. Imagine my glee when the entire double feature was replayed in English. I had to sit through the whole shebang all over again while trying not to laugh as loud as the video deserved.
I can’t wait to fly Air India again.