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Flight etiquette

There are a few things in life that you don't learn at school.  It's not one of your subjects and your parents don't sit you down and say, for example, "Okay, let's talk about flight etiquette". It is however part of your upbringing and manners you are taught but it is also just general knowledge, right? While checking in on Monday for my big adventure, there was a group of "young adults" lets call them, behind me that we're pretty rowdy but I put it down to excitement of joining a cruise ship or re-joining for some of them, and I brushed it off. My sister, cousin and I joked that I would probably end up sitting next to one of them. Funny at the time, not so funny when I realised I was going to be completely surrounded by this group on the plane. Not just to Jhb, but ALL the way to Doha. Awesome. Let me sum up some things that I thought to be not so polite on an incredibly full flight. A grown man screaming like a girl at take off sho