✈️ Who Gets To Decide On When To Close The Blind On A Plane?

Is it always the person sitting in the window seat?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hello there, it's judging demand of driving you home. Closing
the blind on a plane? Who gets to decide? No,
it's not a whippole, it's not a pub test, nor
is it water cooler chat.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Who gets to decide, Brendan you.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
No, it just works, Okay. I like things in its place.
And what you have opened here is a can of worms.
Brand that's what you write, and we still to posit
the worms onto the table.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
The story it was sparked. This is sparked, okay, struck
argument because a woman was on a flight. Some along
flight she closed the blind a sleep as they were
landing in Chicago. She had this blast of light in
a face and at worker up because the person in
the middle seat leant over to open it so they
could take photos out the window.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm going to contradict myself here and think, if you're
landing in a city and they've pulled the blind down
and you're in the middle seat, I think he can
do the reach over.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think he can.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But I'll say this, if I was in that window seat,
I would have had the presence of mind to not
be a big.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hog and leave it down.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
But who is in charge?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
The person in the window seat. So if you can't
handle the responsibility of controlling the blind, then the window seat,
my friend, is not for you.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Not responsibility. It's the generosity of spirit.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's responsibility.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, well then what if you want to responsibility doesn't
like people to put.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Their seat back. They're the same people.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's not responsibility, it's being a good citizen.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Anyway, it's a can of worms.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Okay, Well, let's see what.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
You think Connie is in phraser raise.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Hi Connie closing the blind on a plane? Who gets
to decide?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I think it depends on the flight too, But I
think if it's on a long flight, if you're descending,
definitely has to be up. If a person wants to sleep,
put one of those things across your eyes and fall asleep.
Because I like an aisle seat because I don't want
to disturb anyone if I've got to go to the loose,
So that doesn't mean I just have to sit there and
not get up if someone wants to go to the loop.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Ye, true, Conny, I tend to agree.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
When you want to plane the great responsibility before on everywhere, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Not responsibility, it's manners.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Thank you. Connie Aubrey has joined us.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hello Aubrey, Who gets to decide if the blind's up
or down?

Speaker 6 (02:08):
Windows seat person?

Speaker 7 (02:09):
You pay?

Speaker 6 (02:10):
You pay the extra fare for it?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Do you do you pay extra for a window seat sometimes?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
What about those little self contained ones that you go
in Amanda with.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
The spa just back from the pilot.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Even the soap has a seat belt. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Katie's in some Kilda, Hello Katie.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
What do you think who gets to control the blind?

Speaker 7 (02:31):
I do think the window seat person. But there it's
a courtesy thing, like if you're descending into an exciting city,
like I don't know, put it up and don't they
make you put it down anyway during when you're going
down or if you're in the middle. But I'll excuse me,
each mind if you pop it up, I take a
few pictures. I'm sorry, do not reach over me and
open it and start taking photos.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
What if you're asleep?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Though?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
What if you're asleep, would you rather someone woke you
up and said you mind if I moved the blind
or they just quietly went to do it.

Speaker 7 (03:00):
Yeah, that's a sketchy party. I do not know about it. Like, well,
what if I was woking up by that, I like scream, yeah, yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's a good can of worms. Amanda's in French, as.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Far Amanda, who's responsible for the blind Hi.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
If you don't mind, And I just quickly say, I
love your new time slot and now I can listen
to you on the way home from work.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh, you can say that anytime you like and love praise,
Thank you, Amanda.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
Thank you. That's okay. I think it's definitely not the
window seats person to be in charge of the window.
It's the pilot and the cabin crew and a lot
of the time when you take off and land, I
say that you must leave the window up for safety reason.
So I think it's definitely not the window seats person's

(03:50):
opinion to do that. But I do think that the
person sitting by the window has full control of looking
out the window and can hog the window and not
let anyone else look out the window.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Meaning they should be allowed to if they want to
hog it just by sticking their big head out the
window in the window in the way, that's okay, yes.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
And if the other people don't like it too bad,
they should have booked the window.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
See okay, all right? Thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
And Anne's going to rub this out.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
And what do you think who gets to who gets
to control the blind?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh? Are you talking to me?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
We're what are your taxi driver?

Speaker 4 (04:27):
That was a quick okay. Look I I was recently
on a flight and I know you have picked them
up landing and taking off.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
However, before we landed recently, the sunshine was absolutely blinding
me in the eyes. I was on the window seat,
and I must admit I had to close it just
a little bit. I was very courteous. I didn't close
it completely, but I did close it. And the other

(04:59):
two gentlemen besides, he didn't sync nize, but you didn't
say anything.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, but that's that's what I'm talking about. With great
power comes great.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
You sound like you were aware and for life.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I see the sun streaming and blinding everyone on the planes,
and he said, well, I'll pull it down.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And if the other people had had a problem, you
would have paid attention.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Absolutely, I think we've all got to be courtious.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yes, I think.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
So that's it. Thank you. Can of worms