Note to Self: When traveling by air...

NOT a great idea to board the plane too early if you're flying before 6 AM.

You will fall asleep listening to your iPod and just when the sleep gets really good, the flight attendant will tap you awake and ask you to turn your iPod off and straighten your seat-back in preparation for take-off. Because you were just awaken from a dreamy, Zero 7 accompanied sleep, you will be disoriented. Your music will still be playing in your ears and you will stare at the flight attendant with a confused look on your face as you try to remember where you are, while blinking yourself awake. Just as the wide-eyed, raised eyebrow question mark expression on the flight attendant's face registers, you will remove your ear buds to her repeating her directions (prob'ly for the third time) loudly, slowly and deliberately, as if she is talking to a 3 year old or someone who does not speak English. You will quickly and clumsily comply. Seconds later you will be just a little bit pissed that you were just spoken to loudly, slowly and deliberately as if you were a 3 year old or someone who does not speak English. You will categorize this flight attendant --unfairly--as a byatch and you'll start a 3-hour flight with negative energy, which is against your religion.

Next time, be among the last to board and don't plug in the iPod or fall asleep until you're in the air.

Comments

[indigosoul]

and why does this sound like an exercpt from a really cool novel? you know what i'm thinking....

[Quel]

You're thinking I should like write a book or something?

If this is an "excerpt", the whole book would be my post with "by Quel" before it and "The End" after. That's all I got. Thanks, though. That's a pretty awesome thing to say--or insinuate that you think that.

Watch, you gon' be like, 'Naaaaaw, that's not really what I was thinking buuuuuut...' :)

[summer]

at least your story wasn't about falling asleep in the terminal! that woulda sucked!

[Anali]

I love Zero 7 and can imagine the dreamy state you must have been in.

[God's Child]

I agree with Indigo Soul. Very "relatable" and nicely said. Now readers want to know where you were going. BTW, Nanowrimo is next month!

[amiamazing]

unless you are an analog girl thrown into this digital world and haven't gotten around to catching onto the trend of music in the pocket...I'll get there one day...and use this as a pointer...