Keep your seat in the upright position....

So you're stuck on a plane for nine hours, and you don't have the luxury of having your cramped little row of seats to yourself...Who would you want sitting next to you?

Think about it.

Nine hours.

Nine. Hours.

And I'm taking your spouse, your significant other, your best friend, and every member of your immediate family off the list. 

If you could pick one person--dead or alive––that you've never met, who would it be? 

Personally, I can think of a huuuuuge list of people I'd want to be sitting next to on that extra-long nine hour plane ride. Many different people, and all for different reasons. Above all, though, one thing they all have in common is that they're people I respect. The fact that I could sell their picture or autograph or lip-stick smudged napkin on e-Bay for a pretty penny doesn't hurt things, but I want to sit next to these people for the sheer pleasure of their company. Because I want to delve in there and know what they think, how they think, and how they got to be where they are (or were, in the case of those I would have to resurrect from the dead...)

Robert Irvine, Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay. Coco Chanel. Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum (yes, I love me some Project Runway, but that's not the only reason I want them as seatmates). Bethany Frankel (I think we might have a lot in common––let's give it up for fantastically neurotic women). Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant...Jeff Foxworthy...I could go on and on. 

Hmmm. Maybe I should rent out the whole plane....

The only problem with that is that I wouldn't get one on one time.

Oh. Kay.

Yeah. In the realm of possibility of me ever being stuck on a plane with one of these people, the chance of that is nil, but still, a girl can dream.  

Sigh.