Airplane pet peeve

Danny's pet-peeve post reminded me a of a pet-peeve of my own, related to flying, though, not to driving.

I hate the interminably long-time it takes to get off an airplane. Naturally you have to wait for the door to open, which I'm ok with. What drive me nuts, though, is the people who take FOREVER to get their stuff in order and get a move on.

What's the deal?

We've all been waiting in the plane, the hot and getting stuffier-by-the-second plane, for at least 5 minutes for the door to open, and these people haven't gotten their stuff together, haven't even thought about where their stuff is. They just step out in the aisle and block everyone for painfully long minutes at a time while they get themselves figured out.

It's especially irritating when people do things that they should really wait to do until after they're off the plane, like putting on a sweater, or hooking bags together. Have you ever noticed that people who try to connect multiple bags together and roll them down an airplane's narrow isle invariably get stuck, and have to spend time righting their stuck bags while everyone behind them tries to breathe deeply and count to 10?

Every time I fly I have to sit there and tell myself to be patient. Drives me nuts.