I went home for Christmas.
I spent one week in the U.S. visiting family.
Now Christmas is over.
And it’s time to go back to home #2 in Prague.
Now I’ve got a few hours to kill in Charles de Gaulle Airport before my connecting flight leaves, so let me tell you about…
THE STUPIDEST CONVERSATION IN THE WORLD
The plane stopped.
The fasten seatbelt sign went off.
And everyone stood up.
Behind me, two Americans started a conversation.
I guess they knew each other but hadn’t been sitting together.
The man asked, “How was your flight?”
“Fine,” said the woman. “How was your flight?”
“Fine,” said the man.
Meanwhile, I was thinking, “Your flight was the same as her flight – because you were on the same flight!”
What a stupid question.
Sometimes, I wish I didn’t understand English.
Maybe the question was meant differently, like “How did you cope with the flight, or how did you feel, or how was the flight to you? Maybe the question was shorten. I cannot tell, I cannot feel the language. But, if you say it was stupid, then it certainly was.
It might could have been just a polite phrase between each other
Its hard to recognize this conversation but if I can imagine that these people could have know each other like you say and it was just a casual chat and we usually say something stupid when we want to be nice in some situation but we don’t know what to say.
Even on the same plane, not sitting together two friends may have different flights : One is sleeping fantastically all through the flight and fells well-rested when the plane stops.
The other one is sitting close to a mother and her “ non sleeping “ baby on his right and a snoring stinky neighbor on his left… the flight was not fine ; -))
For me, here’s my example. Pretend the man was sitting next to a mother with her baby who crying all the flight, and his acquantaince (the woman), she sat next to an older lady, which she started a conversation. it’s the same flight but not the same experience.