Thank You, Douglas Mandel

Recently, I described how a certain airline has devised a fiendish way to torment its passengers. That is, a type of torment beyond the usual runof-the-mill torture of flying on any airplane. In a letter to the editor, alert reader Douglas Mandel commiserated with me but pointed out that I was overlooking another kind of torture that is much, much worse.

- KEN C. POHLMANN

In the February/March issue, I described waterboarding, an interrogation technique that makes a person feel like they are drowning. them all about that time you told your wife you were going jogging, but instead, you met some buddies and stopped into a bar and drank beer. Cold beer. Draft beer. Really good beer.

I also described a kind of audio torture called music boarding. This where an airline locks you in a long and narrow tube and plays excruciating sounds such as Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Music. After about three minutes,

lever on the emergency exit door is a really good option. Note: I’ve option. In his letter, Mr. Mandel pointed audio torture. I’m breaking into a panic-sweat even as I think about it. It is when you are on your cell phone, and they put you on hold, and then they play music. This is, of course, phoneboarding. After listening to that unholy pandemonium for about one minute, you simply lose the will to live.