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Spend five minutes talking to your seatmate - Airplane tip

by Kay Logsdon (RSS feed) on Apr 25th 2010 at 11:21AM

We're accustomed to two extremes: the gregarious seatmate who talks through the whole flight, and the one who has his eyes closed from the start. Most of us prefer the latter, but we may be cheating ourselves out of a business contact or an interesting story.

In my opinion, here's the best greeting to use to help find that middle ground:

Hi. Nice sitting with you. Would you mind giving me five minutes about you, then we can each read/work/listen to music/sleep, having had our lives enriched by knowing another interesting person.

You never know, you may wish you had a longer flight.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nate Mar 26th 2011 1:43PM

This is the most bizarre greeting I have heard. I like the idea, but not the robotic disclaimer.

dklax77 Mar 27th 2011 7:52PM

i agree with nate. if someone said that to me on a plane there's no way I would want to talk to them. It's easier just to ask them their name and where they're from and then go from there.

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