Flying High

When you're on a flight, and the airhostess smiles and says "Is there anything I can get you, Sir?" do you think:
a) Chicken or beef, or on an Indian flight, veg or non-veg?
b) Gin and tonic or scotch on the rocks?
c) Do I really want the pack of peanuts? or
d) She fancies me.

Most people, I think, would pick a), b) or c). Possibly all of them. Most people on the flight, I think, would assume the airhostess smiled and made eye contact with them because it was her job, not because she actually fancied the overweight, three sheets to the wind bloke sitting in 25C. According to the paper this week, enough people think d) to force the Indian Civil Aviation Organisation to consider amending the rules regarding passenger behaviour on planes. It seems they've just realised passengers have been able to get away with unsocial behaviour (smoking, being drunk and disorderly, outraging the modesty of an airhostess) because if the offences take place in foreign airspace, they cannot be tried under Indian laws. And yes, there is a law regarding outraging the modesty of an airhostess...