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Leg room is ever so important. Emily is using the “girlfriend privilege” here to get a bit more leg room. It’s a long flight. Non-cattle seating might have been worth letting Emily help a bit with the plane ticket.
Leg room is ever so important. Emily is using the “girlfriend privilege” here to get a bit more leg room. It’s a long flight. Non-cattle seating might have been worth letting Emily help a bit with the plane ticket.
Ryan is no worse off than all the other passengers who don’t have Emily’s to pay for 1st class.
As for glamorous jet-setting to exotic locales, it still happens by way of private jets. The two guys who created google, each have a 767. Trump has a plane and a helicopter. There’s a wealthy sheik who has a custom 747 along with a custom, double-decked A380 monster. Even Pres. O. has use of Air Force 1 (plane), Marine 1 (helicopter) and some huge transport planes that take his limos, support vehicles and all-important teleprompters from place to place for him.
To add insult to injury, now there’s coach (which is bad enough), and economy coach (which borders on cruel and inhumane). Trans-Atlantic flights in economy coach are bad enough, but trans-Pacific??? Medieval torture devices wer genteel play by comparison!
DCS… Yah… I like British Airways… but their seating for a 10-ish hour flight did dip into the in-humane area.
Stick… Yah… the rich and powerful always get the bestest of things. I’ll give the President some slack… you gatta get around. But between you and me, I want to throw things at Donald Trump.
Yah, Barack gets kudos for being self-made. The Donald’s dad was already a rich & successful NY developer/builder, which gave Trump a big head start. To his credit, he did grow the company, as I figure his kids will also, and I like his Apprentice shows.
If you’re down on the “birthers” then you may find this mock Obama campaign ad that the Republicans let fly on April Fool’s Day worth a look.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/obama-april-fools-ad_n_843539.html?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C209137
I have to give some credit to the rich and powerful that started from humble beginnings. Makes jet-setting romanticizing so much more so. Out here in Sacramento there is a guy named Russ Soloman, kind’a old now, who created a record and cassette counter in the back of his dad’s pharmacy. The pharmacy was located in the historic, old and still functioning, Tower Theater. I bet you heard of Tower Records. An even greater leap came from a guy in England named Richard Branson who, as a kid, started and ran a mail-order record and cassette business out of his folk’s basement. He called it Virgin because he didn’t know anything about it when he started. Sadly, Virgin Records (music), and Virgin Media (music, computer games) are gone now. But, Virgin Mobile (cell phones), and Virgin Air (planes) are still going. New are Virgin Galactic (talk about travel romance, $200K gets you a trip to outer space), and some sort of new exploration effort with a submarine he recently displayed that will take researchers, as well as him, to the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. The guy also has a lush island of his own, and has made a couple attempts at the highly romantic attempt of setting new round-the-world by balloon records. He’s a billionaire, yes, but he started by mailing music he picked up locally to others from his folk’s house.
Oh, wow this message is long. Erk.
Don’t yell too loud, brig. Think happy romantic travel thoughts.
Just thank God there’s no screaming children or big fat dudes falling asleep on you.
Ah, for those looking to find Big Macs wherever they roam:
Disney broke ground today on its first amusement park in China, it will be their third in Asia.
On an equally sobering note, oil (the stuff that makes vehicles go) passed $113 a barrel.
I don’t know about everyone else but the window next to Emily kind of looks like an eye staring at them. Think of them sitting right next to Moby Dick or something. 😀 LOL! Man, I don’t know what’s up with my computer lately but it’s starting to tick me off. Every time I hit the backspace button it acts like I hit the button to go back one web page instead. Makes it hard to correct typos with it doing that….