I truly hate to fly
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I truly hate to fly
| 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
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

Sorry that he's not home yet...I know that's not a fun thing!
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.
clarity
Well, anyway, he made it home finally--10 hours late, but in one piece at least.
Angela
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
Angela