As many students might be aware I travel a lot and mainly by air. Over the weekend I travelled to Melbourne to catch up on some business and ran into a couple of people (hello to Alan from Two One Investigations who I did actually bump into :?
On the flight back a situation that I face every flight occured which really broke the straw on the camels back and I need some help to understand it.
On every flight there is a routine. It starts with everyone being seated and the usual frustration with trying to find space to put you bag in the overhead locker. Then you get the inconsiderate lady or guy that insists that you wait in the aisle while they slowly organise their bags and seat and do everything apart from sit in the aisle and have a cup of coffee.
Then you are sitting in your seat watching people walk towards you hoping that the very large bloke with the swaety armpits, flu and bad dandruff doesnt have the seat next to you, for every flight I have been on the drop dead gorgeous female has NEVER sat next to me.
Then if it is an international flight you get the hot towels handed to you to wipe your hands and face. A quick story and I kid you not on this, on a flight to Kuala Lumpur last month, a guy in the centre seats took the towel, loosened his trousers and then wiped his backside with the towel !!! Unbeleivable !! Thats why the flight attendants wear rubber gloves.
If you are me then its listening to the flying time and the big Ohhhhhh if there is a headwind and your going to be in the air an hour longer than you thought.
So we all settle in and take off. As soon as we get above the clouds and the seat belt sign goes off you hear the deafening clicks of seat belts being unfastened. Obviously they wernt on the flight that hit an airpocket and evryone hit the ceiling. I keep mine securely fastened.
So were flying for an hour or two when nature calls and the queues start for the toilets and this is where my problem begins.
The toilets are small, nothing special in their, no hairdryers, no showers and not enough room to stretch your arms out.
So can anyone tell me why when a male goes in he can be in and out in less than 2 mins yet I have waited for up to, and again I kid you not, 20 mins for a woman to come out.
It is unbelivable. They know there is a queue, they know that if the seat belt sign comes on everyone has to sit down and that time is short yet nearly every woman that goes in can take up to 10 mins on average.
I dont want any rudeness, just the truth about what women do and why it takes so long.
On a flight in February this year a woman was in the toilet for 20 mins and I called the flight attendant as I thought she had passed out. The flight attendant knocked and called out and with no answer, manually opened the door only to hear the screams of the woman standing at the basin with her skirt pulled up and washing her bra in the sink !!!!
Surely this is not what happens all the time !! Please tell me there is good reason.
Nothing rude !!! Just the facts.
Note: I apologise to any female who may find this post distasteful however as a potential investigator you will come across far worse than this.
Adrian Francis
ASSI
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