For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn’t even cost you the five if it was the standard.

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      you’d have to have family exceptions or something if they’re in the same row. you wouldn’t want a small child especially having to board at a different time from their family, but even just couples travelling together are probably better to board together.

      airlines without assigned seats are probably the most optimal implementation of this

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        Ah yeah, true. Even with minor exceptions, I still feel like it could be done better. I’m just bitter because I had to take four different planes this week.

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      I’m with you generally. The whole boarding experience causes a tremendous amount of anxiety for me to the point that i’d rather drive for anywhere I can get to with a <16 hour drive.

      MythBusters had an episode related to airplane boarding. If I remember right, the current scheme is the fastest, but it’s due to the fact that everyone can’t follow the rules.

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      You’re probably right in theory, but if you think making 100 random people accomplish that in 5 minutes is realistic, you’re delusional.

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      I flew on an a380 recently. They actually used zoned boarding! The number of people who didn’t seem to get that they wouldn’t be allowed to board till their zone came up was amusing.

      It saved a huge amount of time.