Stink Shield at Seat 29E
Jun. 29, 2005 by Jason
This story has been passed around via office e-mails for a while now, but in case you haven’t seen it, I thought I should share.
Supposedly, some outraged airline passenger sent this angry letter to Continental Airlines describing a less than ideal seat location, the now infamous Seat 29E. I’m not convinced the letter is real, but so far Snopes has been unable to debunk it.
In the letter, the passenger claims this seat is right next to the lavatory, surrounded by the “stench of sanitation fluid.” He describes a horribly uncomfortable flight in which it feels like “all [his] senses are being tortured simultaneously.”
Aside from his questionable grammatical skills, the guy is pretty damn articulate in his complaint. I mean, who could argue with a line like, “the passengers asses that seem to fit into my personal space like a pornographic jig-saw puzzel[sic]?”
The writer obviously wants his money back, but it also seems like he’s just looking for a chance to vent. He ends the letter as it began, with a torrent of bile: “I am filled with a deep hatred for your plane designer and a general dis-ease[sic] that may last for hours.” Well said, my friend.
June 29th, 2005
Perhaps the passenger should have asked to move seats?
June 29th, 2005
That was funny, especially the little drawn pictures. And I can definately attest to the short comings of CO.
But, that dude seriously needs to watch LOST then think about how much it didn’t suck to have been on a plane that actually landed him safely at this intended destination.
June 29th, 2005
But Eddie, whining is so much more fun than actually trying to resolve the problem.
Yeah, Sar. He’s got some serious potential as an artist.
June 30th, 2005
According to a friend who works for Continental, there is no 29E seat on any of their planes. Go figure. He’s seen that letter multiple times though
June 30th, 2005
That’s awesome! I wonder how long it’ll take Snopes to verify this and debunk it.
June 30th, 2005
Dis-ease? That’s great. I’m posting that on my blog as ssoon as I sober up.
July 24th, 2007
Apparently the friend from continental hasn’t checked out the seatguru.com site….
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Continental_Airlines/Continental_Airlines_Boeing_737-800_B.php
737-800 has a 29e right next to the shitter..
August 28th, 2008
I have sat in row 29 on American and it is right next to the lav on md-80’s. So maybe some of Continentals’ aircraft are configured differently, I can attest to this as I sat in that row once and the lav was “right there”…