1. Guy who helpfully shows you Yelp reviews of his top fifteen favorite restaurants in your destination city on his phone, one by one, as the plane taxis for 45 minutes
2. Couple who lovingly feed each other Sbarro
3. Person visibly scared of planes, ends up needing some sort of physical contact with you during takeoff and landing
4. Jehovah’s Witness, fully equipped with intense religious reading material
5. Dude straight up perusing Playboy
6. Person constantly applying ointment of some kind to open, weeping sores
7. Middle aged man who is very enthusiastic about buying you drinks from the alcohol cart even though his wife is also present?
8. Person who is extremely unfamiliar with how planes work, requires your assistance with basic use of seatbelts and understanding of concepts like “time zones” and/or “not joking about bombs”
9. Person who knows someone who went to the same college as you, and whose astonishment at this coincidence lasts the entire flight, even while you fake unconsciousness
10. Person clearly irritated that they are not seated next to their traveling companion who is elsewhere on the plane, openly blames it on you
11. Person who is asleep before the plane even leaves the gate, obviously has really good plane drugs and is not sharing them
12. Person who broke up with someone immediately before leaving on this flight, possibly inside the airport, aka “crier”
13. Returning study abroad student who does not know what day or time it is but has a lot to tell you about their trip to Amsterdam
14. Person who has seen a lot of episodes of 24
