Yes, I have the ticket for that seat.

So a couple of the airlines want to charge $8 for a pillow and a blanket.

Tell you what. I’ll give you eight bucks–heck, I’ll double that amount–if you’ll promise me those disgusting, lice-infested,  nasty things won’t touch me. Have you ever seen one of those airline blankets that looked as if it had been laundered since the Wright brothers took flight? Yuk.

I think commercial planes are frightfully nasty places, in general. I’ve seen a flight attendant simply flip over the cushion in a seat that was soiled. Do you wonder how many times that was done mid-flight?
I freely admit to flying armed with antibacterial wipes. Yes, my seatmates sometimes snicker as I proceed to wipe down the arm rest and tray table…until they see how filthy dirty the wipe is after I’m finished. Most of the time they end up asking if I’ll give them a wipe for their place on the plane.

Oh, but that’s not all. I also travel with my own washable Plane Sheet. Mine is the “classic leopard” style that fits nicely over the germ-infested plane seat. Sometimes people laugh, but usually the flight attendant asks me where I found it and proceeds to tell me it’s a great idea. Check out Planesheets.com, and you, too, can be the proud owner of one in leopard or even pink, beige, denim or toile.

Yes, I bring my own water, and I probably have a purse full of hand sanitizer, too.
So, I’ll be okay without that $8 re-usable, cootie-infested pillow and blanket. I’ll settle for landing safely, along with my luggage I paid extra to check.
And am I the only one who thinks it might be better if we let people check luggage for free and save the charges for people who want to cram all their jumbo-sized junk in the overhead bin? But that’s another blog.