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Monday, July 29, 2024

New York Bound…

When I boarded my flight to New York yesterday I mentioned rather discreetly to the Air Steward I’m a rather nervous flyer. 
“Okay hang on a minute” she said. 
She disappear for a bit. 
Returning with somebody who looks a bit more senior. The Head Steward(?)
“Hello Mr Green.  I understand you’re nervous flyer. Just so you know about 90 minutes in we expecting severe turbulence.”
“Oh. Ok. Thanks(?)”
Weak smiles all round. 
Buckle up baby!! It’s gonna be a bumpy night!! đŸ«£đŸ˜±

(I just looked up First World Problems on Google and my post came up đŸ˜‚đŸ˜‚đŸ˜‚)

So as word got round on the flight I’m a nervous flyer mi crew came to check in me as I looked “worried”. 

Probably the tears rolling down my face and white knuckles that did that. 

So the captain came back to chat to me. What a nice guy. James. I said “shouldn’t you be flying the plane?”. He said “oh these old buckets fly themselves” Weak smile from me. Nice guy though. 

Spurs fan. I made him hold Rex. Haha. đŸ¤£ 


Well, they were right about the turbulence. It got rough. It was really throwing us around. 

My food got chucked up in the air and then on the floor. 

It jumped off my tray - well the plane dropped and it stayed in the air. Then the plane jumped sideways and the food decided to obey gravity and drop to the carpet. 

Newton has a lot to answer for.  đŸ˜‚

Now if it had been a APPLE crumble I’d have had a little internal smile. But it wasn’t. It was my chicken supreme. 

And Newton didn’t have a law about that to my knowledge.

I had managed to grab my glass of red in time though đŸ˜…. 

Waitress said she’d bring more food when turbulence stopped and “full marks for not spilling a drop.”

Woman next to me covered in red wine though. More weak smiles.


















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