Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, flying home for Thanksgiving, I nestled into a Trump Shuttle seat next to a friend, and began to prattle off my typical I-love-air-planes speech. I give it every couple of months. Usually when I'm on a plane...
...cities below. (Flying up the East Coast, you can make out all of Manhattan--the shape of the island, the green of Central Park, the shimmering top of each skyscraper.) On cloudy days, I spot the shadows of clouds on the land far below. On rotten days, the plane flies above the weather. Below you, stretching out forever, is a floor of cloud that looks like snow...
Flying is such a fragile, precarious act; a plane is the tiniest speck hurling through a great expanse of sky, ever aware that it shouldn't be there. In the back of my mind, I always think that the dream could end. Like the coyote who walks, nonchalantly, off the cliff--and realizes, a few steps later, that he went too far. That's the moment, of course, when he starts to fall...
...only there were nothing but the plane, the sky and me. And a pilot, because I'm not about to step into the cockpit...
...heaven. However, the steak turned out to be a meatloaf with criss-crossing grill marks on it to make it look like a steak. Unfortunately for United, this seasoned veteran of airplane food was not fooled; I demanded a real steak, and asked the captain to turn the plane around just like in that Colombian coffee commercial. For some reason, they thought that was funny...