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To: jalisco555

No, thankfully I don't fly much. About once a year I have to fly somewhere on business, and I can't remember the last time I flew for any other reason. But I'm pretty good at amusing myself in boring places. I have a longish train commute every weekend (real home is in a Philly suburb, job and weekday apartment are in Manhattan), and train schedules and delays resulting in missed connections make for a fair amount of time spent in train stations. In the Trenton station, one's options are 1) read, 2) catch up on e-mail via Blackberry, 3) make conversation with other travellers, or 4) stare at a wall. I do a mixture of 1-3.


39 posted on 08/14/2006 8:56:31 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I fly once or twice a month but I know people who fly hundreds of thousands of mile a year. Flying is becoming progressively more unpleasant with the ratcheting up of pointless security. Being forbidden to take chapstick or water on board just doesn't make me feel safer. True, Israeli-style profiling would.

BTW, I haven't gotten a Blackberry yet but I'm rarely without my laptop and a book when I fly. I usually don't strike up conversations with people, many people just want to be left alone when they fly, although I have had a few interesting encounters.

42 posted on 08/15/2006 5:16:54 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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