Who are some interesting people you sat next to on airplanes?

[lexsooner]

1. OSU homecoming queen candidate on her way to an FBI internship in D.C. Never hardly flown before or shot a gun, but she is determined to fight terrorism an an FBI agent and serve the US of A. Sweet farm girl, really nice person, never stopped talking. I still keep in touch with her.

2. A woman who was a 25 year breast cancer survivor. I pass her story along to women I know with breast cancer. This woman was inspiring.

3. Big jockish-looking dude who denied he was an air marshal but had a bogus story about going to do business in Albany, NY, even though the flight was headed for Balt.Wash. Int'l. Oops, after a while all the destinations run together if you fly all the time. Who else would want to sit backwards facing the entire cabin, but an air marshal?

4. East Indian guy blaring his Sony Walkman headphones so loud that the flight attendant snapped at him to turn it down, "It's annoying!" He got off at the main Continental hub in Houston like about everyone else on the plane, but then came back, so I moved seats to get away from him.

5. Mike Gaddis' girlfriend's dad, who was a rec center supervisor at Boston College. He had a big box of lobsters while fit poorly under the seat in front of him, so his feet were propped up on the box the whole flight. Super nice guy. Offered me a free workout if I ever headed up to the BC campus. I later talked to a co-worker who went to BC and she laughed because she remembered the guy, anal to the max about recreation center rules.

6. Austrian woman who worked as a buyer for a clothing line in Palm Beach, FL. She went to a design/business school in FL, and laughed when I asked if some women went into buying because they liked to shop. She said it was true, although the field requires lots of business/accounting ability.

7. Shifty-eyed little creep who before he deplaned, looked around in a shifty manner before stealing the plane's Fortune magazine. A real perv.


Etc. etc.

[usmc-sooner]

I sat next to Joe Seay (former OSU wrestling coach) once.

I got off a plane once, in uniform and a older lady walks up and hugs me and said thank you.

nothing to exciting.

[King Crimson]

i sat next to this old guy from Arizona with a cowboy hat and a bolo tie once and he SBD farted about every 5 minutes. and it was noxious, eye watering type stuff. he name was JR Stitt.

[12]

A 13-year-oldish kid puked all over the back of my seat last time I flew. We were still on the tarmac waiting to take off.

That's sort of interesting.

[Bakasooner]

Jeez, Lex....

You must be one of those guys I always end up sitting next to. You know the ones. The guys that won't shut up.

[ouflak]

Well the typical mixture of people you might meet such as you've met. The one time I've flown first class international, I sat beside Xavier Koller, director of the Oscar winning film Reise der Hoffnung. It took me about an hour to get used to that wierd Swiss dialect of German he spoke.

[SeattleOUstudent]

Well the typical mixture of people you might meet such as you've met. The one time I've flown first class international, I sat beside Xavier Koller, director of the Oscar winning film Reise der Hoffnung. It took me about an hour to get used the that wierd Swiss dialect of German he spoke.

Ich weiss nicht Reise der Hoffnung.

[Newbomb Turk]

Got to fly 1st class on a business trip about 10 years ago, flying from OKC to Memphis. The guy beside me was a VP for GM, and was on his way back to Detriot. He said he Isiah Thomas was his neighbor.

[StoopTroup]

Marc Singer...

My Wife and I were flying to Oahu and Marc and his Wife were flying home after being in LA on business. Nice guy IMO.



I was leaving Tampa after Super Bowl 35 and was trying to get on an earlier flight. Michael Irvin and I were the last two to board. Folks were asking me if I was his agent.

[SoonerInKCMO]

I sat next to a hottie with a nice rack once.

[JohnnyMack]

I sat in front of an NFL referee flying from Orange County to DFW on a Saturday night. He called the Cowboys game the next day.

Other than I don't remember. I'm not a chatty person on planes. Besides I'm usually sitting with co-workers.

[SoonerStormchaser]

I sat across the aisle from Emmanuel Lewis last year in first class on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta. Really pleasent and funny guy.

[jk the sooner fan]

Peter Weller - robocop....courtesy of a first class upgrade

[OUHOMER]

Barry Switzer about 10 to 15 years ago. Trent Smith sat behind me last time I flew.

[StoopTroup]

I was flying on this packed plane one day and this lady's kid was just throwing down a tantrum of all tantrums. She let the kid sit in the aisle for a few minutes and the kid just sat there and stared at all of us sitting behind his Mom. I made eye contact with the kid and he started crawling towards me. His Mom turned and was watching him. As he approached he was smiling, so i said "hey little guy...how you doing?". The kid smiled again and then tried to bite my ankle!

I'm pretty sure the kid needed an Exorcism.

He almost got me...good thing I could pull my legs up into my lap and get away from him before his Mom grabbed him...

[BeetDigger]

I don't remember too may people, they all tend to blend together after 15 years and thousands of flights. I do remember this lady who was a reporter for CNN however.

And one time I was shopping in DC at a Banana Republic. The next day, as I boarded the flight to go back to Seattle, I recognized the flight attendent as the clerk from the Banana Republic. She gave me free drinks the whole flight and as we chatted away. She then sent home a bottle of wine with me. About a year later, I saw her on another flight. She gave me more free drinks and another bottle of wine.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I sat next to two very unusual "women" one time. One looked like a cartoon character I have seen in Walt Disney cartoons. A mouse of some kind, I think. The other was most likely a trans-gender type. I secretly studied "her" face for beard stubble, and never was certain. I don't recall drinking on that flight.

[DoubleDown]

I was coming home to OKC after I ended my active obligated service in Corpus Christi when I got on the plane and noticed about 20-25 of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. I was wondering where they all came from when we were about to take off and the pilot came over the loudspeaker and welcomed the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders to the flight. We stopped over in Houston and they all left, but that was a solid 30-45 minutes of pure oogling.

Good times, good times.

[proud gonzo]

Marc Singer...

My Wife and I were flying to Oahu and Marc and his Wife were flying home after being in LA on business. Nice guy IMO.



I was leaving Tampa after Super Bowl 35 and was trying to get on an earlier flight. Michael Irvin and I were the last two to board. Folks were asking me if I was his agent.

BEASTMASTER! did he have the ferrets with him?

[lexsooner]

I was at Bluegrass airport yesterday with what appeared to be the UK basketball team, since Tubby Smith was there with them. But the more I looked, the more I noticed most of the players in blue warmups were not that tall, and most of them were white. Tubby stood in the security line for a while and then turned around and left and then started chatting with some folks, probably parents of some of the players. Tubby seemed like a real nice guy. Anyway, the team was on its way to play in the Maui Classic, and they were on a Delta flight to Salt Lake City. However, this commercial flight was for the SCRUBs, the bench warmers and some admin. staff. Tubby left and probably caught a charter flight with the real team and coaches.