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the first 12 hours of my 13 hour and 23 minute flight were uneventful for the most part. boringly uneventful.i sat next to a 10 year old paraguayan who was flying to japan for some study tour with his class ( which sang some weird songs in the terminal before the flight which made me really uncomfortable.) he was nice enough but almost entirely unaware of his body, which kept edging more and more into my space every time he fell asleep. he also refused to address anyone in english. the communication between him and the japanese stuartist was phenominal. neither would budge linguistically. so fastforward through 3 back to back viewings of speedracer followed by the same last 20 minutes of hancock while waiting for speedracer to start again i had the weirdest sensation of the floor dropping. oh wait. it literally did. i was floating. no joke, i had enough time to see my knees at headrest level before the floor quickly rising up into me. it kinda hurt. i somehow had the wherewithal to quickly find the seatbelts and buckle myself in despite the sleepless fog before the flood did the dropping thing again. this time i noticed the paraguayan half floating half sliding down the aisle to his seat next to me (he would strangely disappear for hours at a time..on a plane...where does one go for hours, HOURS?) he managed to climb into his seat before it dropped again and i pulled him back down and buckled him in and in my AMAZING spanish told him to stop freaking out and 'no vamos morir' (i think...ish?) THEN, i turned around and saw the cougars behind me screaming and their jack n cokes outside of their cups floating in the air then falling on their puffy hair. which was funny. some lady in the back wouldnt stop screaming and then after it was done the pilot came on. after. AFTER. smart. and said please buckle up, we're experiencing some turbulence. PEOPLE WENT FROM SITTING TO RAMMING THEIR HEADS. 'some turbulence.' not a big deal. after we landed a doctor looked at a flight attendants f'ing swollen hand and told her it was broken.

'please buckle up, we're experiencing some turbulence.' after the fact is an acceptable preventative measure.