Things that will get me off a plane very quickly...

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3. In the summer of 1981, I took a 2 week tour...

...of what was still the Soviet Union at that time. it was a tour for nurse practitioners, to compare nursing roles in the different countries and see if there was anything comparable to advanced practice nursing there (there wasn't).

On one of the flights between two of the republics, it was pretty damn scary. As we walked across the tarmac to the airplane, I could see that the tires were quite bald. The carpet on the aisle was not glued down very well, and was all wavy and lumpy. My seat belt was missing the slide in part of the buckle - maybe I was supposed to tie it in a knot? The one flight attendant was shouting at everyone, and stomping up and down the aisle, physically shoving people into their seats if they hadn't say down quickly enough to suit her.

No safety briefing. No drop down oxygen masks. I had a window seat. Once we reached cruising altitude, it got so cold in the aircraft that frost formed on the inside wall of the fuselage around the window.

I was really happy when we landed safely.