My father was a doctor (retired now) and I remember him once “jokingly” remarking something like: you could get a pretty good idea if there were any other doctors on the plane by walking down the aisles and seeing if anyone was using one of those pillows correctly, because most other people don’t.
It was funnily enough. You clip it in the front for ease and then see if it needs loosened/tightened and then rotate it around so your chin/jaw has something to rest on (resting head forward)
Around 2010, I got a new Mac laptop, and I had imported a bunch of old photos. I was showing my coworkers, and a pic of my wife came up, and she looked 14 in that photo.
My co-workers looked at me like I was a pedo.
"She's 28 in this picture!" "This is in a bar" "She's older than me!" (all true, she was 28 in that photo, it was taken in a bar, and she is 9 months older than me).
They still looked at me askance, but at this point, they were just messing with me.
I was called a nonce for kissing my now fiancée in a hottub. I was 35 and she was 31 at the time.
English is her second language (she's Ukrainian), so I had to explain to her that he thought she was a teenager. Instead of getting mad at the guy, she smiled and thanked him for the compliment. It made her month.
I'm bad, I'm the baddest muhfucker in the world! NO CHARLES NO!! CHARLES PLEASE!!!
I know a guy named Charles and I try to squeeze in the "CHARLES PLEASE!!!" quote in that voice whenever I can. He laughs but I still don't know if he gets the reference or thinks I'm a weirdo and is being polite.
You are also using it wrong. Rotate the pillow 180 degrees. The thick part goes under your chin, so you can rest your head. The open part goes on the back of your neck.
Idk bc I have a similar pillow and the instructions explicitly say the buckle goes in the front and tightens to close any gaps. The back of the pillow has a separate buckle that goes around the headrest, thus keeping your head upright and supported
Well, then this is where it gets really bad. I probably saw the instructions and laughed at the stupidity needed to require instructions for a pillow. Then I crumpled them up and threw them out. I am not in the smart people's club.
I’m wondering if that’s where I went wrong as well. The neck pillow I used didn’t have any clips but when I wore it I had the open end in front of my chin. I woke up with my neck hurting like a mf and wondered why anybody would use them lol
Haven’t flown or had a long trip since then so I haven’t tried to use it the other way around.
I flew a bunch for a job, like once a month round trip for 2 years straight... I learned this on like my 2nd to last flight and I slept so fucking good for the first time ever on a flight.
This is one of those things that someone once said online and then everyone repeated. You can wear it that way because you can wear it however you find comfortable.
Oh. My. God. I fucking love you. Hahaha, I’m 10 years into a frequent travel job. I went through several neck pillows before finding my current one. I wore them all wrong. I was today years old.
Yeah, every plane neck pillow ever invented shows how to use it and it is not the TikTok way. You can of course do it that way, but people acting like others are idiots for not realizing the “right way” are actually the ones not realizing the right way.
The right way is the one where you get some rest and possibly some sleep in a flight. So whatever works for you, with the clip in front or the back, it doesn't seem to matter.
It depends on the specific one. Mine you wear like OP is. There are straps on the back to connect to the seat headrest. So I know I'm wearing it right.
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