I love the safety videos on airplanes. Everyone is so eerily calm and cheerful in all of the emergency scenarios. Children wait patiently for their oxygen masks, and people follow the lighted strip out of the darkened, fallen plane at a measured, orderly pace. I generally wish that all the other passengers around me, who are by and large ignoring the demonstration, were taking note of this.
For the first time ever, I watched all three films on the plane from London to Toronto. Ben Stiller and Jennifer Anniston in Along Came Polly (which was flat despite my abiding love for Ben Stiller), Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa (sort of a Dead Poet's Society for girls, with Julia Roberts starring, as usual, as Julia Roberts), and many great actors (and Hugh Grant) in Love Actually (had some great moments but fell flat overall). At the end of it all I felt like I was really connected to 15 year old girls everywhere.
Overheard on the flight from Barcelona to London:
"You prefer the aisle seat?"
"Yes, I prefer to stay well clear of what's going on out there!"