Backpack Injuries
Backpack Injuries
When I say 'injuries' I don't mean back strain I mean getting hit in the face because a fellow passenger is still wearing a backpack during boarding an aircraft.
I prefer aisle seats because of a knee injury so I can stretch my leg at intervals. The downside is being hit in the kisser as following passengers, wearing backpacks, turn to their companion to discuss seat assignments or Auntie Mary's pecadillos. The backpack, worn at a height equivalent to that of a sitting passenger, then whacks you in the head and in my case yesterday actually removed my eyeglasses.
In Venice they ask you to remove backpacks on the water buses, presumably for the same reasons and to allow more passengers to board. Perhaps airlines should adopt a similar practice for narrow aircraft aisles
I prefer aisle seats because of a knee injury so I can stretch my leg at intervals. The downside is being hit in the kisser as following passengers, wearing backpacks, turn to their companion to discuss seat assignments or Auntie Mary's pecadillos. The backpack, worn at a height equivalent to that of a sitting passenger, then whacks you in the head and in my case yesterday actually removed my eyeglasses.
In Venice they ask you to remove backpacks on the water buses, presumably for the same reasons and to allow more passengers to board. Perhaps airlines should adopt a similar practice for narrow aircraft aisles
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It's the same on the tube in London - I think on recent visits I've seen signs asking people to take them off (if I recall correctly, part of a series of mildly humourous reminders about polite behaviour - most of which should be bleeding obvious to us, but apparently isn't).
Presumably a loud "ouch" after receiving the injury would hopefully alert the perpetrator and they may be more careful in future?
Presumably a loud "ouch" after receiving the injury would hopefully alert the perpetrator and they may be more careful in future?