In message Brian
K wrote:
>I once had the misfortune to take Greyhound during a strike of airport
>ground workers. My trip from Newark NJ bus depot to downtown Pittsburgh
> was a ride from hell. The bathroom on board the bus was clogged and
>overflowing. The stop halfway was at some godaweful truck stop. The
>food makes Taco Bell healthy and nutritious by comparison.
Sounds about right to me. Never had a clogged bathroom to my knowledge,
but then I've never actually used the bathroom on a bus for anything
more then a few moments of privacy to fix my underwear.
>As for your girlfriend with a fear of flying, I have one word:
>Cosmopolitan. Not the magazine but the drink. Tell her you want to
>toast your trip to the bus station. Keep those Cosmos flowing. Ok you
>can't bring them through security but plan ahead. Contact the cocktail
>lounge near your gate and keep 'em flowing. Ok. Not so much that you'll
>have her puking in your lap. Just enough that she'll be game to do
>anything. If she asks questions just tell her it's a jet powered super
>fast bus.
Unfortunately she wasn't much of a drinker, so that wouldn't fly (I made
a pun. ha-ha-ha)
>Normally, I am not one to encourage dishonesty in a relationship. But
>hey, girlfriend has got to get over this fear of flying thing. If you
>have to tell her that her fear is a metaphor for the "Fear of Flying"
>that Erica Jong wrote about.
If she doesn't want to fly, fine, I could handle that -- Unfortunately
shortly after we started dating the fear expanded to include when I was
flying. I travel for business, and although I could avoid it, I rather
enjoy it.
Since breaking up in September I've put on almost 7,000 personal miles,
feeling much better now.
Turned out it was easier to get rid of the girlfriend then deal with
that particular issue.
She phoned me shortly after I moved (about a month after we broke up I
moved back to my home city, about a 2 hour flight from where she lives),
she offered to fly out to be with me if I'd take her back.
Honestly, part of me was tempted to take her up on it just to help her
deal with her fear of flying, but I'm not that much of an ass to put her
through that alone without any intention of following up on my part.
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