A Little Fun - Would You Sit By Steve M, Steve A or Doug?

[PharmDMommy]

Your flying from NY to Sydney (no stopovers just for the sake of my scenario) and you have a choice of seatmmates : Steve M, Doug, or Steve A. Now you sit down and you politely say hello but something with you (Cosmo, a report for work/school, your low cut shirt, boyfriend kisses you, etc ) sets them off.. How do you respond (and yes you speak English, you already said hi) and if you could mess with them without any karmic retribution (which I wouldn't worry about w/ this crowd anyway they deserve it IMO) what would you do?

 

Last if it meant canceling your trip even who would you run screaming from the plane from?

 

Just a little Monday fun!

[bbfreethinker]

I'd pick Doug. I'd ask him if he'd ever been to the Amazon, then I'd laugh and laugh while he told me about his manly adventure.

[fundiefan]

I don't think I'd bother saying anything, not even to mess with him.

I'd just hope like hell I had a chance to run to the airport newsstand to get one along with the most anti-religious book available. Then I'd turn up the volume on my iPod and ignore him while I read my stuff. Maybe, since it's a long, international flight, they'll have movies available. I'd find the most offensive one to watch.

I'd say nothing outright, but find as many little ways possible to annoy the shit out of him.

[Letgo]

I'd choose Doug, too. I kind of think sitting next to Doug would be fun. Think of all the questions you could ask to get him started on reliving his manly adventures. It would be so hard to hold in the laughter, though. Now, since he would be seated during the flight, he could not use the manly, legs wide apart stance. So how does one sit for hours in a manly fashion? And since I am a woman, at whom would he stare adoringly during the flight?

Steve M. would be monotonous as a seat neighbor. And again, since I am a woman he might not be able to be seated next to me. I mean, if the IT On Ramp program cannot allow a male/female tech conversation, how on earth could Steve sit next to a member of the opposite sex? Whoops! I mean gender! Far too defrauding. And I wear pants. No low cut shirts, but still, pants.

I would run screaming from Steve A. As fast as humanly possible.

[twin2]

Would Steve A even be allowed on an airplane? It wouldn't shock me if he was on a "list."

[Koala]

Would Steve A even be allowed on an airplane? It wouldn't shock me if he was on a "list."

Nah. If you want Steve A., you'll have to come up with an airport scenario BEFORE TSA gets to him :D

[twin2]

Nah. If you want Steve A., you'll have to come up with an airport scenario BEFORE TSA gets to him :D

I'd pay good money to see that!!

[Koala]

Oh, and I would take Steve M., but only if you tossed in Terri to sit on the other side of me.

I think I'd start by ordering a Pepsi, and then I'd talk a lot about the Easter Bunny.

[Letgo]

Twin2, you are right. We would all be safe from Steve A. He would not allow a TSA scan, nor would he submit to being patted down. Wasn't there a post about that? Even if he somehow got through without being "violated" there has to be a list of whackdoodles somewhere. He'd have to take a ship. I can see the cruise ship now....all that defrauding on deck. hehehe..

[PharmDMommy]

For me Steve A would cause me to go screaming because I would be afraid of having the plane need to have an emergency landing because he all of a sudden decides that he had enough of the two men sitting in front of us and jihad is the only way to save us. Although if we could drop him off in Iran and never let him come back I would be down for that. Let him preach against Muslims there let's see how he likes Sharia(sp?) law? Zsu Zsu too.

Actually I would love to make some of these women that preach submission to have to go and live for 1 month under real religious law, wonder how fast they will come back and ditch those fundie boys, put on a pair of pants and really let their hair down? You want to live like that go see what it is really like. My Grandma and aunt had to go live in Saudi fir my Grandfathers work for 6 months in 1978, they sAid it was the worst 6 mths ever and they did not have to fOllow the rules inside, so imagine what that oppression 24/7 is like?

[Lily]

Steve A.

I could have fun with him. He seems like he'd be easy to goad into doing something or saying something insane, and insanity is always entertaining when you can emotionally divorce yourself from it and just be idly entertained.

[aubrietta]

I've posted this before, but I'll post it again because we're talking about seatmates, about Ivan E Coyote's (lesbian storyteller) experience flying with a fundie seatmate who mistook her for a clean-cut young man and encouraged her to marry her girlfriend .... I laugh out loud every time I listen to it. myspace.com/ivancoyote select "Judging a Book by its Cover - Part 2"

There is absolutely no way I would get on a plane with Steven A. Doug or Steve M would be funny. I would have my baby with me and I do not breastfeed with a modest cover-up so I am sure I would make them squirm. Doug would probably write a blog post about indecency on air planes or something.

[lovefromgirl]

Your flying from NY to Sydney (no stopovers just for the sake of my scenario) and you have a choice of seatmmates : Steve M, Doug, or Steve A. Now you sit down and you politely say hello but something with you (Cosmo, a report for work/school, your low cut shirt, boyfriend kisses you, etc ) sets them off.. How do you respond (and yes you speak English, you already said hi) and if you could mess with them without any karmic retribution (which I wouldn't worry about w/ this crowd anyway they deserve it IMO) what would you do?

Last if it meant canceling your trip even who would you run screaming from the plane from?

Just a little Monday fun!

I am flying back from Germany with my beloved and my metamour. We are all in first class. (Hey, it's my daydream.) My meds have kicked in, so I'm flying about as high as the plane, and Dougie picks up on this, as well as the fact that the hot English guy across the aisle has two partners. This has perturbed him for a few reasons. I will let you speculate. ;)

So when he tries to minister to me, I tell him, "Oh, yeah! I know who you are! You're the guy who tried to organise the D-Day reunion, right? Man, I've seen Band of Brothers, like, five times through. Hey, would you have time to look over something I wrote on the subject? Since you know so much about the era and all."

And I call up my porny little two-soldiers-in-Normandy story for his reading. Um. Pleasure. :whistle:

As for running screaming from anyone: The Botkin girls. Screaming about the Uncanny Valley and its escaped inhabitants. *shudder*

[MamaJunebug]

.

I've been waiting for just such a time.

Crackpot: Steve M.

Item that irritates: Complete layman's version of Lutheran theology

Resulting convo: By Sydney, Steve both knows the error of his Steve-centric ways *and* has been validated for any right theology he happens to have!

BTW, I get the aisle seat. And we're in first-class. It's *my* daydream, right?

:P

[BlackHawk]

I'd pick Steve A.... simply because I don't fly without my partner, and I think having two gay guys next time him would horrify him. I've dealt with many anti gay's in my life, mostly from my own family, so it's pretty easy for me to sit and be calm. I think Steve A would be interesting also, because I've never understood that much hatred in anyone. I'd be sure to bring my Bible (and Book of Mormon) just to prove him wrong on the context of his scripture references. I hate people who take scripture out of context!

[formergothardite]

Dougie. I want to find out if he knows about LOLDoug. And find out why he loves to dress up in military costume to show his "manliness", yet doesn't sign up.

[PharmDMommy]

Do Mormons use the KJV? B/c there is no way Steve will take anything other then the KJV as being correct and the book of mormon would add to his justification of u being incorrect. If he thinks Catholics are not Christian, there is no way he would consider a mormon Christian. But I like the idea of bringing your partner, but am I the only one guessing that flight would result in Steve acquiring some new jewelry by the end? A pair of shiny silver bracelets perhaps? I don't think that kind of rage and hate would be able to remain under the surface for that length of time. I really do worry about him actually hurting someone, he would become a martyer for his cause. If he ever hurts someone physically I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He disgusts me.

[Witsec1]

Formergothardite, I was just going to say something similar. Dougie seems like the gregarious type, it would be easy to strike up a conversation. He has such a big, fragile ego, that flattery would get him to reveal all kinds of stuff. In particular I want to know if there has been a Phillips/Botkin feud.

[alphaeta08]

Oh, totally Doug! Since we'd have a long time to talk, I'd try to get him to realize his true self. As soon as he accepted himself as gay, the whole religion thing might fall by the wayside. Then we could talk about boys. Hey, I would have a lot of time to accomplish this feat. 8-)

[VodouDoll]

I could see myself sitting next to Doug. He'd probably talk about himself the whole time and all I'd have to do is nod a lot and amuse myself by making fun of him to his face without him realizing it. "Oh! Wait, I know who you are! You're famous! If only the pope read Rushdooney, he would be converted for sure! How wise of you! Wow, you romped sweatily through the amazon, and all in the course of just a few days set up a clinic and researched vampire bats and hunted anacondas? That's amazing!" Imagine how big his head would swell if a person Of the World had heard of him.

As for Steve M, god help me, but I wouldn't be able to resist asking the stewardess for a Pepsi and then turning innocently to Teri and him and asking, "Would either of you like one? It's an idol, you say? Tell me more about that!" But I think I'd get bored of him pretty quickly. At least Doug has gone places and met people and had a few (carefully stage managed) adventures. The Maxwells would wind up talking about death and Uriah for 12 hours straight.

And as for Steve A, no freaking way. Never.

[formergothardite]

With Steve M. you could play a drinking game with how many times he mentions death.

[Sweetpea1]

I would sit next to Dougie... my rosary would get him in 5 minutes. Dougie could suggest that I read Rushdooney and I could suggest that Dougie read the Summa.

[Jessica]

Do Mormons use the KJV?

Yes indeedy!

I think I'd like to sit next to Doug. He irritates me the least of the 3. I already hate flying so being nauseus from turbulence PLUS Steve Anderson would probably kill me.

[BlackHawk]

Do Mormons use the KJV? B/c there is no way Steve will take anything other then the KJV as being correct and the book of mormon would add to his justification of u being incorrect. If he thinks Catholics are not Christian, there is no way he would consider a mormon Christian. But I like the idea of bringing your partner, but am I the only one guessing that flight would result in Steve acquiring some new jewelry by the end? A pair of shiny silver bracelets perhaps? I don't think that kind of rage and hate would be able to remain under the surface for that length of time. I really do worry about him actually hurting someone, he would become a martyer for his cause. If he ever hurts someone physically I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He disgusts me.

Yeup, we do! LMAO... he'd have a pretty hard time fighting one on one though. You can't take a carry weapon on a plane, so he'd have to use his own hands. Beauty is I'm trained to take down children who are a threat to themselves or others... so he'd be pretty easy to take down without breaking a sweat. I honestly think if you take away his guns he'd be pretty darn easy to subdue.

That said I would still prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law, it's only just.

[CelticGoddess]

I would only fly with Steve A if I would bring about a dozen vials of Geodon and an equal number of syringes. Because I seriously think that man needs some Vitamin G stat! Forget the haldol, geodon works better. Then, I would take pictures of him drooling. :icon-twisted: