Thu 2 Apr 2009
Hey folks 
I’m in Pensacola, Fl, and the rain is just now dying down. It’s been pouring the past hour or so and thundering and lightning-ing.
I seem to have come down with another sickness, and besides that my back has been aching. Probably a combo of sitting in the plane and also the bed I’m in is a *lot* softer than sleeping on my little mattress on the floor.
I wish I had brought my camera. Especially because in the airport while I was waiting to board, a mouse came out from under the heaters (I assume that’s what they were?) on the wall. It was very cute, and after timidly checking if I was dangerous, it ventured across a bit of the floor and picked up a piece of cracker that was lying near my feet. Then it ran away, and came back with a second one! I put out two oyster crackers near the vents and then went back to talking on the phone, and all of the sudden I heard a noise and a flash of oyster cracker out of the corner of my eye. I just missed seeing the daring grab of the oyster cracker. After that, people started arriving to board and I guess the other mouse must have been scared away.
So…I have no pictures to post from down here, since I don’t have any.
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On the plane on the way out we were getting ready to take off and the stewardess asked the woman behind me how old her son was. He was two, and the stewardess said “He has to be in his seat and buckled for take off.” So the lady says ok, and puts him in his chair. Screaming and crying and yelling ensues. The little boy does not want to sit down. The mom says things like “Oh, those stewardesses don’t know any better, they don’t even have any kids.” She was telling her two year old son what “evil witches” the stewardesses were for enforcing the rules. “Heartless, that’s what they are.”
The woman was saying it so loudly and obnoxiously. The husband said something infused with profanity about how if they didn’t want to take off with their son in his mom’s arms, then they could go right ahead and taxi back to the boarding place and drop them off.
Posted by Bonnie under Uncategorized
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:09 am
Well, I wish to say Howdy from Oregon! It is pleasing to hear that you’re there and not too worse for the wear of the trip. I detest flight compartments in general. It would be bad to fly through that rain and thunder and lightning you mentioned. We have some large amounts of rain here too, especially lately. By the way, do you think ‘Pensacola’ sounds like it should be the name of some carbonated drink to make us think? I always thought it did. Maybe it’s just the way I say it, which would be wrong, like a lot of things I do. And so forth. It is good to know you are on the ground. It is my most favorite place on this good Earth. Somewhere along the way I lost my wish to defy gravity. I’m not claiming that’s helped anything, but I feel better about the attitude and the altitude!
–g♥
April 16th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Some times I just want to turn around and tell parents to stop acting like kids…in instances like those, I ponder who is in charge.