Abby Johnson

Be not afraid to be countercultural

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Since I have been doing all of this traveling, I have decided to come up with some rules for flight. I will call them “Abby’s Airplane Rules.”

  1. No ethnic food of any sort is allowed onto an airplane. 
  2. No removing stinky shoes from your stinky feet for the entire duration of the flight. 
  3. No singing aloud to a song you’re listening to on your iPod.
  4. No undoing your belt or the button on your pants if you are sitting next to me… that’s just weird.
  5. No leaning your body over mine just so you can look out of the window… if you want a window seat, you should ask for one. 
  6. No adjustments are allowed to be made to my air conditioning vent.
  7. No passing any sort of stinky gas out of any orifice of your body… it is recycled air for goodness sake, we all have to breathe it!!!
  8. No sitting near me without chewing a piece of gum or not having a mint in your mouth during the entire flight. 
  9. No telling me about your most intimate and personal problems just because we are strangers on a plane. 
  10. No spraying perfume or body spray. See #7. 
  11. No  falling over onto me or into my space when you are falling asleep. Gross. 
  12. No talking to me when my headphones are in. They are in for a reason probably because you should pop in a mint. 

I think I will start giving a copy of these to the people sitting next to me on the plane. I encourage you to do the same. If all goes well, it should make your flights much more enjoyable. 🙂

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  1. Hey Abby! That airplane story was a hoot! 🙂 I haven’t been on a plane since ’95, but I can certainly understand the points you made- personal space is difficult to protect when someone is sitting practically in your lap, on a long flight!
    I really admire the work you’re doing, defending the unborn after being a Planned Parenthood employee for 8 yrs is awesome! I’m in Ohio, a Libertarian, & pro life supporter. I donate to a local CPC, & frequently go against the brainless anti lifers on the RH Reality blog. They are rabidly defensive of abortion rights- and spew out such blatant lies about our pro life movement. I almost feel my spirit drained from arguing with some of the twits that post on RH! 🙂

    Anyway, God bless you Abby- hope you are supporting many CPC’s with those God given profits from your speaking/book engagements…they need all the help they can get, & God will continue to bless your sacrifices in His honor, I’m sure.

    More power to your Pro Life activism!!

    Mrs. Christine Baldauf

  2. LOL! These are GREAT! I’m guessing you actually experienced these to some extent or else you wouldn’t know to establish a rule about them! Thanks for the tips! …I mean RULES! 😉