I truly hate to fly

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I truly hate to fly
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Sat, 05-01-2004 - 12:28am
OK, it's after midnight, and I'm still awake. Hubby has been on a business trip the last 3 days, and he called me from O'Hare to tell me that there was some strange problem, and he wasn't on his plan yet, so he would be getting in here later that expected. The whole concept of taking a large metal tube, slapping flaps on the side and calling them wings, filling it with breakable human bodies and hurtling it through the air as fast as mechanically possible is just not comfortable to me. I don't fly unless I have to, and then I can't be alone, because I have so much xanax in my system that I have to be steered on and off the plane like a confused sheep. I really really really wish he would just get home so I can stop imagining all of the millions of things that can go wrong with an airplane--I keep thinking that my VAN can't go 6 months without needing something done to it urgently, and it doesn't travel several thousand feet above the ground. And NOW I have to worry that he's in a plane that couldn't take off on time because it needed to be FIXED FIRST! Great, he's in the rent-a-wreck of airplanes. Ugh.

I know this isn't a SAHM thing, except that I'm at home, and right now he's not, but I just had to tell someone, and I couldn't think of anybody to call at 12:30. :(

Angela
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Sat, 05-01-2004 - 12:48am

Sorry that he's not home yet...I know that's not a fun thing!

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Sat, 05-01-2004 - 9:12am

I know how you feel.
My husband flys on planes at least 2 times in 3 weeks. I hate them and only can think horrible things that could happen when he is on one.
Just don't try and think about it, as hard as that is.
I am sure nothing will happen to him, cause you are safer in a plane then riding a car or walking on the sidewalk, you have more chances of getting hurt or killed doing that then riding a plane.


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Sat, 05-01-2004 - 7:33pm
this is just wrong, but your post had me laughing my butt off. not because anything you said, but just because it reminded me of my sil, who is almost pathologically terrified of flying. still not funny, i know, but hold on! anyway, my sil had never flown in her life until last year, when my uncle was getting married and everyone in my extended family was going to meet in fl. for the wedding. well my bro convinced my sil that she was being paranoid, that everything would be fine, and that she should go, right? my dad lives in the same town in az with bro and sil, so they all decided to fly together. now if you knew my dad at all you would know this was a bad idea, because he's the world's worst pratical joker. absolutly NOTHING is sacred to that man, i still cringe when i think about the time he put tampons in his nose to disgust me and my friends when i was 13, lol. so anyway, the get on the plane, and my sil is drugged out the gourd, the dr gave her 6 xanax, 3 for the trip there and 3 for the trip back, so she was high as a kite. halfway through the flight she passes out, and my dad and bro start conspiring. they're sitting on either side of her, and all of a sudden they both start SCREAMING bloody murder, shaking the armrests with all their might, and yelling: "WE'RE CRASHING!! WE'RE CRASHING!! THE PLANE IS GOING DOWN!!!" my poor poor sil wakes up screaming, terrified that they're crashing, and promptly wets her pants and has a panic attack!!! my dad and bro got in trouble with the stewardess' for their little stunt, but they were still laughing when we picked them up in fl. but it turned out my sil got the last laugh, because she refused to fly back, and my dad and bro had to rent a car and drive her the 2000 miles back to AZ!! anyway, i hope your dh is fine, as i'm sure he will be, and maybe i've gotten a laugh out of you ;)

clarity

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Sun, 05-02-2004 - 5:52pm
OH MY GOD!! I would have killed them. Not figuratively. Literally. I'm usually snockered out of my head when I'm on a plane, having been drugged at least a half hour before having to even go to the airport. If we're there too long, hubby pours another pill down my throat every couple hours. Our last flight, there was a storm, and he KNEW that I would refuse to go to the airport to go home (we were in Detroit for a company Christmas party) so he drugged me before he let me look out the window of the hotel room to see what the weather was like. I could barely keep my eyes open on the shuttle over, but even THEN was objecting in this pathetic incoherent way to getting on the plane. He had to show the security dude ID for both of us and my prepaid boarding pass that we had bought with the tickets there before they believed him that I wasn't being kidnapped. I drooled on him all the way home. We had a layover, and he almost had to carry me off the plane into the terminal. I think he's planning on putting me in a wheelchair and knocking me out completely next time LOL. If they like practical jokes so much, she should have faked a seizure when they scared her that bad. See who thinks it's funny then...

Well, anyway, he made it home finally--10 hours late, but in one piece at least.

Angela

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Mon, 05-03-2004 - 10:46am
lol, well at least he's home :)

i sooo can't relate to the fear of flying, i personally LOVE flying, one of my dreams when i get rich is to get my pilots license. i've been flying since i was a little kid, and i love it every time. an ex boyfriend owned his own plane, and he used to let me fly it all the time, it's one of my best memories. that's too funny about the wheelchair, are you really that bad? guess it's grayhound for you, lol

clarity

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Thu, 05-06-2004 - 3:02pm
Sadly, yes, I'm really that bad. I even make the flight attendants nervous. I think they see the look in my eyes and think "Uh oh, she's gonna be trouble..." They don't ever put me near doors or the emergency exit lol! I think they're afraid that I might try to escape mid flight--really it's not likely, I'm too drugged to attempt it. I'm thought about trying hypnosis to try to get over it at least to the point that I'm not terrified the whole time. My husband wants to go on vacation farther away from home now that the kids are getting bigger, and I'm afraid that they would be traumatized by their daddy having to knock out their mommy with xanax then throw her onboard like so much luggage... :)

Angela