Interesting conversations on an airplane

[Ducky_Fresh]

2007, I fly to the Australian GP. For this 15 hour flight, I end up sitting next to a woman who is probably about 30, average attractiveness, very nice (kinda nerdy, slightly overweight if I remember).

I notice she is reading a book. It is "The 5 Love Languages". She Proceeds to tell me how she had gotten married at 18, then quickly divorced.

Now, was on her way to Australia to meet a guy she had been dating online for 5 years or so and they were planning to get married.

The Internet, man.

PS - I somehow own this book now, someone gave it to me a few years later. Skimmed through it, never really read it, but I the general premise is interesting that there are 5 basic motivations for people's relationships. Good to know what you like, or what your partner likes! (or disllikes).

 

[Busy Little Shop]

Don't get me started talking about airplanes... I'm plane crazy...

 

[Eldritch]

Back before the internet got huge, I sat next to a retired guy who was traveling the world. We spoke for a while, and I listened to his world travel stories. He mentioned that he sent out a monthly newsletter with stories of where he’d been and what he did that month. He said that he mailed them out to all the interesting people that he had met on his trip. He asked if I wanted to be added to the distribution. I said yes happily and gave him my mailing address.

I enjoyed reading his newsletter for a couple of years before I just stopped getting them. I never found out what happened to him.

That was the first travel blog that I ever read. I don’t care if it was a physical letter. The man was ahead of his time.

I cannot express how utterly horrified I am at the idea of giving my home address to a random stranger on a plane.

 

[aminalmutha]

I cannot express how utterly horrified I am at the idea of giving my home address to a random stranger on a plane.

You mean you don't want someone to show up at your house for some midnight skullfucking?

 

[Eldritch]

You mean you don't want someone to show up at your house for some midnight skullfucking?

LOL, most of my friends don't even know EXACTLY where I live.

It is one of the main reasons I try to pay for things with cash.

:laughing

 

[wannabe]

Don't get me started talking about airplanes... I'm plane crazy...

Isn't it amazing how much better service and food you get on non-US airlines?

Did you really drink 4 bottles of wine on that flight?

 

[wannabe]

You mean you don't want someone to show up at your house for some midnight skullfucking?

It wasn't that bad. He at least put on a condom when I asked him to.

 

[Brokenlink]

Not really an in-flight conversation, but an interesting day for sure.

I was on the big island of Hawaii visiting my girlfriend (back in college). My mom's friend worked for Delta so I got a free ticket, but apparently needed to dress nice. Button down shirt, pants, etc.

Well after a week of bumming around Hawaii, I get to Honolulu airport and they won't let me on the plane because my shirt was too wrinkly. And since there was no place to get it pressed in the airport, I had to take a bus to downtown and try and find a cleaners. The problem, I had lost my ATM card and only had about 11 dollars to my name.

So I get to town and can't find a cleaners, so I buy the ugliest Hawaiian shirt I can find with 8 dollars and use 2 of the remaining three to take a bus back.

So I am sitting at the bus stop, waiting and fuming. Some guy walks up and asks me if I have any money.

"No." I reply.

"I just need a few bucks," he says. "I just got out of jail and am not afraid to go back."

I was in such a foul mood I didn't realize that the guy was basically trying to rob me.

"Sorry man. I'm broke."

We then say at the bus stop together. I looked back and laughed when I realized what was really happening.

 

[wannabe]

Not really an in-flight conversation, but an interesting day for sure.

I was on the big island of Hawaii visiting my girlfriend (back in college). My mom's friend worked for Delta so I got a free ticket, but apparently needed to dress nice. Button down shirt, pants, etc.

Well after a week of bumming around Hawaii, I get to Honolulu airport and they won't let me on the plane because my shirt was too wrinkly. And since there was no place to get it pressed in the airport, I had to take a bus to downtown and try and find a cleaners. The problem, I had lost my ATM card and only had about 11 dollars to my name.

So I get to town and can't find a cleaners, so I buy the ugliest Hawaiian shirt I can find with 8 dollars and use 2 of the remaining three to take a bus back.

So I am sitting at the bus stop, waiting and fuming. Some guy walks up and asks me if I have any money.

"No." I reply.

"I just need a few bucks," he says. "I just got out of jail and am not afraid to go back."

I was in such a foul mood I didn't realize that the guy was basically trying to rob me.

"Sorry man. I'm broke."

We then say at the bus stop together. I looked back and laughed when I realized what was really happening.

The world is sometimes a great place to be when you're clueless. :teeth

 

[Busy Little Shop]

Isn't it amazing how much better service and food you get on non-US airlines?

Did you really drink 4 bottles of wine on that flight?

It was amazing... Alitalia treated Mary and I like family... real cuisine instead of peanuts served with one of my favorites Valpolicella from Verona (the city of Romeo and Juliette)...

 

[wannabe]

It was amazing... Alitalia treated Mary and I like family... real cuisine instead of peanuts served with one of my favorites Valpolicella from Verona (the city of Romeo and Juliette)...

Did you follow along with the tourist tradition of rubbing Juliet’s statue's right boobie?

 

[Bay Arean]

I generally avoid convo like others here, in case it just gets out of hand.

On the way back from Amsterdam last March, we sat next to a retired AF officer who was eager to engage so we went along with it after he asked about the palaces and castles which we had seen, which were many. The guy was coming back from some kind of Knights Templar wingding. Now, I do a lot of genealogy and history so I am already a huge bore but this guy had me beat. He was just so super-impressed with the fact that he went and played dress-up with a bunch of people who have decided to revive the Knights Templar (minus actual fighting and dying and being martyred) and have conventions and shit. Pulled out his phone with dozens of pictures of people having a big dinner in some castle).

I like the arcane but man.....he went on and on. It was like having the history channel on but it never stops for a commercial. The most amazing thing to me, was that he had not yet learned what all family genealogists learn about boring the relatives/strangers whomever and he was about my age. Into Oak Island, too...I kept trying to imagine this guy's wife and how much she had to drink to put up with it....(she didn't go on the journey needless to say)

So, on our next trip, we played it as usual and didn't have any meaningful interactions whatsover. Geez that sounds kinda mean.

 

[Brokenlink]

It was amazing... Alitalia treated Mary and I like family... real cuisine instead of peanuts served with one of my favorites Valpolicella from Verona (the city of Romeo and Juliette)...

Wait a minute......Larry and Mary? Please tell me your kids or pets are named Harry, Barry, Kerry, Shari, or Fred.

 

[HappyHighwayman]

These days I avoid conversation because it could possibly just not end.

 

[lefty]

I have only two semi-interesting plane memories;

1. When I was about 13 y/o, I was flying solo to New Orleans to visit my Grandparents. The airlines would usually put unaccompanied minors together. So, I was seated next to this other boy who was 13 or 14. He told me that he wanted to be an Pilot in the Air Force and was going to go visit his Senator so that he could attend the 'correct' military academy to follow his career path. He needed this guys endorsement to get into the school!!! I was like; WTF!?!?!?!?! I was only concerned with not missing my favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons at that age--- this guy has his whole life path figured out!!!

2. About 15 years ago I was on my way back from a business trip to Mexico and this SMOKIN' Hawt Lady sits next to me and starts telling me about her b/f that she's going to visit in California, blah, blah, blah, etc. She asks me if I had a g/f, and I told her about this Woman that I'm dating on and off again, and how the Woman keeps getting cold feet and how I feel that I should move on. I told her that the Woman calls me WHENEVER I have made up my mind to move on, and wants me back. I tell her that it is uncanny- how she seems to have telepathy, because as soon as I'm fed up--- she calls me back!!! Well, as soon as our plane lands- my phone rings and it's the crazy Woman pleading for me to take her back!!! I'm now married to her!!!

 

[Bay Arean]

I have only two semi-interesting plane memories;

1. When I was about 13 y/o, I was flying solo to New Orleans to visit my Grandparents. The airlines would usually put unaccompanied minors together. So, I was seated next to this other boy who was 13 or 14. He told me that he wanted to be an Pilot in the Air Force and was going to go visit his Senator so that he could attend the 'correct' military academy to follow his career path. He needed this guys endorsement to get into the school!!! I was like; WTF!?!?!?!?! I was only concerned with not missing my favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons at that age--- this guy has his whole life path figured out!!!

2. About 15 years ago I was on my way back from a business trip to Mexico and this SMOKIN' Hawt Lady sits next to me and starts telling me about her b/f that she's going to visit in California, blah, blah, blah, etc. She asks me if I had a g/f, and I told her about this Woman that I'm dating on and off again, and how the Woman keeps getting cold feet and how I feel that I should move on. I told her that the Woman calls me WHENEVER I have made up my mind to move on, and wants me back. I tell her that it is uncanny- how she seems to have telepathy, because as soon as I'm fed up--- she calls me back!!! Well, as soon as our plane lands- my phone rings and it's the crazy Woman pleading for me to take her back!!! I'm now married to her!!!

Delete is an option for the sake of yer relationship, amigo!:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

[wannabe]

1. When I was about 13 y/o, I was flying solo to New Orleans to visit my Grandparents. The airlines would usually put unaccompanied minors together. So, I was seated next to this other boy who was 13 or 14. He told me that he wanted to be an Pilot in the Air Force and was going to go visit his Senator so that he could attend the 'correct' military academy to follow his career path. He needed this guys endorsement to get into the school!!! I was like; WTF!?!?!?!?! I was only concerned with not missing my favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons at that age--- this guy has his whole life path figured out!!!

This kinda reminds me of a non-airplane story. When I was in high school, one of my classmates was kind of my hero. I totally looked up to him. He got outstanding grades, and he was really good at sports. In every sport we played together, he ended up getting the team MVP award while I got 'most inspirational.' (I call this the 'you sucked, but you tried really hard' award.)

We lost track of each other after high school. A couple years back, he found me on Facebook, and we caught up. For many years, I just figured that he pulled an Al Bundy and topped out in high school. Nope. After high school, he ended up going to the US Naval Academy. By the time, we connected again on FB, he was the commanding officer on a destroyer basically next in line to become a captain of his own ship.

I like being around people that make me feel like I need to do more with my life. :thumbup

 

[rodr]

Delete is an option for the sake of yer relationship, amigo!:rofl:rofl:rofl

:laughing

 

[lefty]

Delete is an option for the sake of yer relationship, amigo!:rofl:rofl:rofl

If you were to meet my Wife, you would realize that she has a WICKED sense of humor and she would wear that post like a badge of honor.

We tease each other constantly, and she brings up the fact that she was "only allowing me to think that I was free, only to reel me back in --like a fish". :laughing

Wannabe-

That is really cool. Your friend must be an amazing individual. :thumbup

I understand what you mean 100%. When I was a kid- there were LOTS of negative external forces in my neighborhood (EPA). I knew what I wanted and I did NOT want to be like some of the folks I grew up with. My mantra was "Only Positive External Influences".

 

[dravnx]

Not quite an airplane but close. We took the Amtrak Coast Starlight from Seattle back to the bay area and had a sleeper compartment. When you book a sleeper, meals are included and for dinner they seat you with other passengers at the table for 4. The other couple were train geeks. She had crossing arm earrings, both were wearing shirts with trains on them and he had a scanner plugged into his ear so he could monitor the train radio.
As soon as we sat down, he started explaining all the train stuff like type of cars, type of engine, what the little white signs along the track meant. At first it was interesting but after about 10 minutes I was done. We ate our dinner, skipped dessert and drinks and headed for the lounge car.