Well, personally, it depends on my mood at the time. It's kind of nice to have a little conversation at the beginning and end of the flight. Helps cut down on annoyance of being in a cramped space with a stranger. If you can develop some familiarity it's nice. But I certainly don't want to be blabbing with them the whole time either... and 9 times out of 10, they don't want to either. It's easy just to take out a magazine or put on your headphones and the conversation stops.
I always wonder that too. It seems like it all rides on those few minutes before take off. If no one talks before you take off, you have both committed yourself to stoic silence or the rest of the flight. If you strike up a conversation, you have committed yourself to, at bare minimum, occassional polite comments about benign things ("that's a lovely shawl," "this salisbury steak is like eating a piece of rubber!").
I often don't bother to initiate, but often wish I had. It just sounds like it's perfect fodder for the beginning of a good story ("...and then the man I met on the plane invited me to his Tuscan Vila, where I met Prince William and learned how to grow the perfect Merlot grape.") I can just see it.
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I often don't bother to initiate, but often wish I had. It just sounds like it's perfect fodder for the beginning of a good story ("...and then the man I met on the plane invited me to his Tuscan Vila, where I met Prince William and learned how to grow the perfect Merlot grape.") I can just see it.
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