Fly those friendly, freaky skies!

I flew to Chicago this afternoon and was just struck by how crazy the people you fly with can be. I flew in on a smaller plane today, probably about 75 passengers or so, but they are all complete strangers and, let's face it, close in proximity! I think the crazy thoughts started coming to me when my seatmate decided to nod off for a while. To make the story richer though, I should mention that the guy sitting across the aisle from me, nodded off before we even took off and started snoring quite loudly. You know, the people that scare themselves awake because they don't know what that ridiculous noise was?! Nonetheless, several heads turned to try to discover who the snoring bandit was. My seatmate laughingly says to me ''Can you believe this guy"? I quietly chuckled and continued trying to read my book. We had barely taken off when my seatmate decided to catch a little shut-eye himself. I continued reading my book but out of the corner of my eye I occasionally saw him twitching...hands, arms, legs, feet, head, etc...nothing was out of the picture here. It appeared to me that the deeper the sleep, the more the twitching would occur. I started to become a bit concerned when the twitching led to full out arm flailing...first, he smacked the seat back in front of him, scaring the person in front of him awake. Ok, I did almost laugh out loud this time...honestly, it was tough not to. However, no real harm was done so soon he was back asleep and twitching away. He was holding a McDonald's cup full of ice (yeah, he was crunching on ice cubes right up until takeoff when they were almost all crunched on) in his hand on his lap and the next really big twitch resulted in his hands squeezing the cup until the lid popped off. In the process, he also tilted the cup and apparently had more ice cubes remaining then I was earlier led to believe, since the tipped cup produced a sizable amount of water, created by the melted, unchewed upon ice cubes. Now, this particular episode did produce more of a fuss for him since he now had a wet (and presumably cold) lap. The funniest part about all of this is that throughout all of it, I just continued to quietly read and pretend like nothing at all was happening. I'm not sure if he wasn't aware of what was happening but he didn't seem the slightest bit embarrassed by all of the goings on. It made for an entertaining flight and I was grateful I didn't walk off the plane with a nice shiner! Alas, I'm guessing the flight home won't be quite as interesting since I'll probably be among those sleeping since I take off at 6:30am! Happy flying all, and try to keep those eyes open!