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Start with a septic pump failure, add non-rev roulette, then shake in a first-class passenger drying her hands with a toilet seat cover. That’s our week. From the ground-up mess to the sky-high absurdity, we pull back the curtain on why people lose their cool on airplanes—and how to keep yours when elbows sprawl, feet roam, and someone mistakes the cabin for a yoga studio.

We also lean into the season. Halloween in our neighborhood is a full-on production: hayrides, smoke, blow-ups, fire pits, and an “adult boos” cooler that turns trick-or-treat into a two-hour festival. Candy nostalgia flows—popcorn balls, wax lips, double bubble—and so does a real conversation about why we love fear. Anticipation, jolt, release: haunted houses are roller coasters in the dark, and that dopamine hit is part of the draw. We trace the shadow to its source with haunted histories: Eastern State Penitentiary’s brutal isolation, Italy’s Poveglia Island with plague pits and a later asylum, and West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny, where overcrowding and crude treatments turned suffering into legend.

Back on the ramp, we talk cabin etiquette and common sense: no baby on the floor while the dog takes the seat, no man spread on jump seats, and please find the trash bin. We tackle real headlines—a passenger triggering a slide by yanking a door on the taxiway, another blocking the aisle to “save” deplaning for her daughter—and a spicy take on service culture after an Olive Garden gratuity blowup. Good hospitality is in the small details, and so is respect for the people doing the work.

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