I love how she was going to ‘call her lawyer’...and if they actually picked up she would then be on the hook for more than the cost of her ticket (or even the cost of a ticket on a far superior airline) in lawyers fees.  

‘The way to help others is to open the door and LEAVE.’ (emphasis mine)

This article got me wondering that very thing.

I don’t think anyone expects you to comb through the wrecked/sinking/burning plane to drag people to safety, but from my experience the verbiage (both in print and stated by the flight attendant) usually includes something along the lines of ‘assist other passengers to exit the plane’. Here’s an excerpt from Alaska…

Yeah...we had a Stanza Wagon that had ‘jump seats’ in the way back...basically just the actual seat part and some weird seatbelt arrangement. Pretty uncomfortable as you leaned the wrong way into the incline of the second row seat...but you’re right, at least that had 6 - 8 real hard points that it locked into. And in…

Indeed...the Jump seats in the bed of my uncles’ Subaru Brat were indeed the preferred spot among us kids to ride to the beach in when he would come to visit every summer, but even back then we only half jokingly called them ‘the ejector seats’...

But you still get the perks...metal detector instead of body scanner (a little bit faster), you can keep your shoes and jacket on typically, and leave your (single) laptop in your bag...usually. I’ve noticed there does seem to be some variance between individual airports, but you frequently do not get most or all of…