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Ok!  Top Gun Maverick!  Always wanted to see that movie.  Get out the headphones, plug ‘em in.  Ready to rock and roll.  Yeah, Tom.  Come on, smoke them unknown (Russian) bad guys.  Yeah, yeah.


What’s this?  No sound?  Search for mute button on handset.  No mute button.  See screen.  See volume indicator on screen go up and down merrily.  No sound.  Try picture dimming.  Dims, brightens.  Seems to work.  Check earphone jack.  Hear clicking in both ears.  Seems to work.  Hmmm.


Against all my instincts, I begin to search the screen for directions.  Find a very nice pictorial diagram.  No mute button indicated.  Caption at bottom says ‘If you need to call a flight attendant to get help with this entertainment system - you may be a moron.’


Despairing of having to watch Tom in silence, I once again turn to my Ph.D. training in analytical thinking.  I pound the screen.  That doesn’t work.  Ok, check the headphones once again.  Hidden mute button?  Hidden on button?  


Oh! I know!  Switch to music and see if that works.  Hmmm.  Hendrix.  Yeah, Jimi.  Give me that sweet guitar.  Volume at max.  Nothing through the headphones.  WTF


By now I’m grippping the seat rests in frustration.  I curl my finger over the top of the right-side seat rest and feel…


So I pull the headphone jack out of my seatmate’s seat rest and plug it into mine, get blasted by Hendrix and go back to Top Gun.


The above actually happened, I’m embarrassed to say.

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