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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
The one other trick I do is I make sure I don't put any luggage/bags under the seat in front of me so I can slide my legs under the seat in front of me and stretch out that way.
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Me too. Makes a big difference.
The biggest thing is that I find the newer seats don't have as low of a pivot point at the 'hip' of the seat, so your knees can utilize that space.
A couple years ago I was stuck on a LONG Vancouver-Manila flight on an old 747 (still had ashtrays! ack!) and each seat had tons of room under it but there is a steel bar across that low point on the seats that jammed into your knees, making that space unusable.
And agreed about camping and shower heads! Also clothes in general though, like you see an awesome jacket on sale in what should be the perfect size only to have the arms and torso be an inch or two too short!? Or where sizing betweem L/XL/XXL means getting wider (fatter) and not longer. So you either have enough length but too much width or not enough length but the right width!?
But the worst one is neck ties!! Short guys get to have awesome looking ties with nice knots in them. Tall guys have to either use a crappy/limited selection tall ties that gets waaay too thin at the top, so your knot looks just ridiculous OR you have to try and use every last inch of a normal tie and maybe get it right after the 3rd or 4th try (with practice) yet still never really get that 'full knot' look that midgets can get with one try! I mean sure we could use a lot of guys head as an arm rest when in a crowd but those midgets look way better in a tie than most tall guys!? And of course because all the girls are checking out the tall guys it makes it that much more obvious!!
Claeren.