The Flying Friday Five
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jesse_the_kWhere did you go the last time you took an airplane ride? San Francisco for FogCon 1.
Are you a nervous flyer or a comfortable flyer? Although I first flew age six weeks, I hates it now. Uncomfortable seats, inaccessible bathrooms, and worst of all: Security.
Window seat or aisle seat? Window, please.
What is the worst experience you’ve had flying? Turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean in a turboprop with ~26 other people. Five were dedicated to finishing all their liquor before landing so they wouldn’t have to pay import duties. Two words: Airborne vomit.
What is the best experience you’ve had flying? East YVR -> ORD (Vancouver BC to Chicago IL). Daylight flight, totally clear the entire time, the landscape was a beautiful quilt of mountains, cities, farms and forests.
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Date: 10/02/2018 04:59 am (UTC)Aaaaaagh.
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Date: 11/02/2018 04:17 pm (UTC)On the other hand, at least I was in the air.
I was 14, traveling alone, and the airline goofed the take-off time for that flight, from Stockholm to the Faeroe Islands. In the 1970s, there were two flights a week, so I had to bum around the city on my own for three days. Being the 70s, I made friends with a stranger in the airport, and spent a couple days at her commune.
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Date: 11/02/2018 06:39 pm (UTC)That's excellent.
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Date: 12/02/2018 02:19 am (UTC)See, this is what qualifies as a genuinely horrible flying story! Yuck.
Reading that reminded me that there used to be those bags on airplanes--are they still there? I haven't seen them in a while, though I haven't been looking.
Fun to read your responses! M.