flight ritual

I think it was the time I was in a big plane that someone felt needed two performances of the safety talk for everyone to see that I noticed this. They didn't bother to place two sets of attendants along the aisle to do it; they just ran through the program quickly so that it could be performed twice while the speech happened once. Of course, this completely removed all meaning from it and turned it into a sort of ritual.

Here is another take on the dance of the flight attendant.