Don't Say B___ On a Plane! (Thursday Thirteen #5)

Thirteen Things about Tracie

1. I have a special story to tell you, a true story--here is the title: "Don't say B___ on the Plane!" Are you intrigued? I know I would be............... On the way to Arizona, we had to sit next to this guy on the plane. First he tried to get me to sign up for his natural home health care pyramid buisness-I declined as nicely as possible. Then he took a nap. Then he woke up-with burning itchy eyes from his contacts. It was just a couple of days after the new no liquids rules so he didn't have any contact lens solution with him (which I think you can actually bring, but he didn't know that at the time) So he proceeded to complain about how much his eyes were bothering him. I was sympathetic-we still had two hours to go..........Then all of the sudden the pain in his eyes must have affected his brain because he decided to come up with an idea how he could sneak contact lens solution on the plane when he traveled home in a couple of days. He told me that what made sense was to just put some in a plastic bag and tape it to his leg. Because the metal detector wouldn't pick up on it and he could easily sneak it on. Well, at this point I was already looking nervously around to make sure that no flight attendants were standing nearby hearing this, because I was sure it was a forbidden topic---And then.....you guessed it he started saying "Of course I don't understand why those guys who were making the bombs didn't do that. You could easily go into the bathroom and untape the bags and mix the stuff together to make a bomb. If you wanted to bomb a plane that is all you have to do. In fact it would probably only take a couple of bags of stuff to make a bomb. Really bombing a plane probably isn't' that hard" Yep, he just kept going-I promise you that man said the word "bomb" at least thirteen times before Katarina saved me by wanting to ask for some of my Sprite....and then I pretended to sleep, because "Bomb Boy" was sure to get us all arrested if he was allowed to continue talking like that on the airplane! What an idiot! Don't say bomb on a plane!! (I'm glad that we weren't sitting behind an air marshall or anything!)

2. I did ask the guy if he thought it would help to go to the bathroom and stick his head in the sink to try to get some water in his eyes.....he wasn't impressed with my idea. I was just hoping that if he stuck his head in some cold water he would come to his senses and stop saying "bomb" on the plane.

3.When we were starting to land in Arizona Katarina looked out the window and said "Arizona is brown. There is a lot of dirt. I see a few houses, but mostly it's just dirt" --that's the truth!

4. I interrupt vacation items to say....have you tried the Sunkist Cherry Limeade? Because if you haven't, you need to go buy some right now. It is suprisingly very good!

5. One of the best things about visiting my family in Arizona--good Mexican food. That is something that is pretty impossible to find in Florida!

6. On the way back we took off in a big storm and flew through the rain. I looked out the window and saw lightening several times.....a little scary.

7. Here is a picture out of our window- that streaky stuff you see is rain. I didn't get any lightening in the picture, but trust me, we saw it!

8. Katarina really liked it, though-lightening, turbulance and all. She seems to be a natural airplane person.

9. For some reason whenever I visit Arizona it always rains.

10. I interupt vacation items again to ask a question. Do you remember when you could take the lid off a Coke bottle and win something-a free Coke or money or whatever?? I miss those days. Now all you get is some stupid code that you have to go online to enter and see if you have won. That is just too much work people--bring back the easy Free Cokes!

11. My cousin is getting married in April and she asked Katarina to be a flower girl. Katarina is so excited to "wear a pretty dress like a princess and throw flower petals all over the floor of the chuch" We are going to have to let her practice in a hallway or something so that she won't just throw them "all over!"

12. This is the first time that I really missed Arizona after coming home. I sort of wish that we lived there with all of my family and that Katarina could be closer to my mom.

13. Someone found my blog by google searching "lizard of peace" and several people found it through googling words in pig latin from that time I translated it (Why people are google searching words in pig latin, I am not sure, but apparently they are) I wonder if people who are searching for bomb on a plane will come here--I hope not. I am decidedly anti-bombing planes. I just wanted to make that clear.

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