Turn on Closed Captioning When Watching a Movie on an Airplane
We’ve all been there. You get on a plane, determined to work, read a book, or even just sleep, but somehow instead, you spend hours of your travel time, enchanted by a movie on your neighbor’s screen. Fascinated and puzzled, he tries to catch as much as possible without asking his neighbor to share his headphones.
Redditor peekay427 posted an extremely generous tip for this situation on the LifeProTips subreddit: if you’re watching a movie on an airplane, turn on closed captioning. Not for myself, but for the hapless voyeurs, whose eyes will inevitably be riveted to the bright light of the screen.
Once I fully overlooked “Shoal” on a laptop, which is located in the row ahead of me through the space between the two seats. I didn’t even want to! It was too bloody and hard for me. But if the person in front of me followed this advice, at least I might know what is happening with the seagull. (I was really afraid that Blake Lively would eat this.)