Full price retail shopping on a plane....please

homeplaceofthefuture daily log 5057

Unless you travel often for your work from home job, most of us are home and rarely leave. Over the years I have perfected my people watching skills and this morning on a flight I really was fascinated with this woman sitting in front of me on the other side of the aisle. 

It's June -- yet it looked like she just got off the ski slopes coming from Dallas. She opted for the inflight wifi and used it wisely by searching for more travel (something that doesn't require a wifi purchase when you are searching on the provider's app). I thought what a DUMMY and then she started shopping -- have you ever purchased Lululemon clothing for full retail on a plane? Yeah me neither.....but wait there's more, I didn't catch the brand name, but there are apparently $235 backpacks for kids and she bought 3 of them for her grandkids (I'm assuming). 

• Maybe she doesn't get internet at home
• Maybe she stole someone's debit card and she's the identity thief.
• Maybe she's a nervous flyer and this is how she compensates.
• Maybe I've worked from home so long that I forgot that people can shop online outside of their homes these days.
  
  

You can see where I'm going with this....for a 7:30 AM CST flight out of Dallas my flight home was consumed with thoughts of what, how, why?

One thing she did do that I can agree with is give the stink eye to crying kids and their parents. Spending a small fortune on full retail wasn't enough to distract her and the first noise from a kid she had that hawk-eye vision that all parents have experienced when their kids cry in public. Kids are all happy before the plane takes off and everyone loves seeing the kids and smiling at them......then the first "unpleasant" sound comes from the kid and all hell breaks loose on the flight.

Just a weird observation on a random flight outta Dallas headed to the homeplaceofthefuture and back in my black t'shirt.