Stuck in the crash position (Bryson)
October 22nd, 2008 | Published in Humor and Satire, Life
Once on an airplane, I leaned over to tie a shoelace just at the moment that the person in the seat ahead of me threw his seat back into full recline, and I found myself pinned helplessly in the crash position. It was only by clawing the leg of the man sitting next to me that I managed to get myself freed.
—Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Broadway Books: 1999), p. 249.