airplane ride
So, hopefully I'll have time to type out this story before my talk...
So, I just flew into Seattle, I'll be here for a few hours to give a talk and then I'm going to LA to hopefully find a new apartment.
Anyhoo, when I got on the plane, I had the aisle seat and the window seat was occupied by a woman with a frisky little 11 month old boy. He was pretty cute, and although I worried about how he'd be on the 5 hour flight, he won me over by sticking his arms up when his mom asked him where the stars were.
We were getting along okay and sort of hoping that the middle seat would remain empty. Poor kid just learned to walk, how would he ever sit still? Then, down the aisle comes this pasty white man with teeny tiny eyes (so small there weren't really any whites), a straw hat (not sure what kind), khaki pants (2 inches too short) and a matching khaki shirt with epilets (those useless pieces of frabric that button on the shoulders). I couldn't get over it. He looked like a zoo keeper that never went outside in the sun...maybe he worked in the snake house. He was too good to be true and the look on his face when he realized he'd be stuck next to a baby was awesome.
Apparently the teething baby drooled on his seat a little (I had already been hit with some drool from the baby...no big deal). He took out a tissue and tried to soak up the drool from his seat before he sat down. Okay, maybe that isn't a big deal, but cut the lady a break, she was about to be stuck holding her squirming son for 5 hours.
He sat down and crossed his hands and made no attempt to be nice to either me or the cutest baby ever. The mom was totally awesome too. She was rocking him, playing with hime, reading stories, the works. Eventually, the man in the middle fell asleep. The baby accidentily reached out and touched the man (that hat in his lap had to be pretty temping...I wanted to grab the hat and put it on). When this happened, middle man got all kung-fu and started whipping his arms around in karate chop motion. It was really scarey and he almost took me out. After this the mom turned her back to him to protect her baby. He didn't even apologize for scaring the shit out of us.
Anyhoo, my talk it soon. I better go potty and review slides.
So, I just flew into Seattle, I'll be here for a few hours to give a talk and then I'm going to LA to hopefully find a new apartment.
Anyhoo, when I got on the plane, I had the aisle seat and the window seat was occupied by a woman with a frisky little 11 month old boy. He was pretty cute, and although I worried about how he'd be on the 5 hour flight, he won me over by sticking his arms up when his mom asked him where the stars were.
We were getting along okay and sort of hoping that the middle seat would remain empty. Poor kid just learned to walk, how would he ever sit still? Then, down the aisle comes this pasty white man with teeny tiny eyes (so small there weren't really any whites), a straw hat (not sure what kind), khaki pants (2 inches too short) and a matching khaki shirt with epilets (those useless pieces of frabric that button on the shoulders). I couldn't get over it. He looked like a zoo keeper that never went outside in the sun...maybe he worked in the snake house. He was too good to be true and the look on his face when he realized he'd be stuck next to a baby was awesome.
Apparently the teething baby drooled on his seat a little (I had already been hit with some drool from the baby...no big deal). He took out a tissue and tried to soak up the drool from his seat before he sat down. Okay, maybe that isn't a big deal, but cut the lady a break, she was about to be stuck holding her squirming son for 5 hours.
He sat down and crossed his hands and made no attempt to be nice to either me or the cutest baby ever. The mom was totally awesome too. She was rocking him, playing with hime, reading stories, the works. Eventually, the man in the middle fell asleep. The baby accidentily reached out and touched the man (that hat in his lap had to be pretty temping...I wanted to grab the hat and put it on). When this happened, middle man got all kung-fu and started whipping his arms around in karate chop motion. It was really scarey and he almost took me out. After this the mom turned her back to him to protect her baby. He didn't even apologize for scaring the shit out of us.
Anyhoo, my talk it soon. I better go potty and review slides.