Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 02, 2018

Some people live their whole lives constantly reaching for that barf bag. There’s always some turbulence up ahead that was once avoidable.

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So she wants to be a passenger in life instead of a pilot?

I come for the chuckles and leave with knowledge…win-win.

In my experience, people who are always asking “Am I right?” really don’t want to know when they’re not.

Well, Frazz took a left turn there to reach . . .?

I actually like a bit of turbulence, it lets me know that I’m not sitting in a bus.

I have been trying to convince my kids of the importance of showing their work for years. The problem is that it is easy to do basic math in your head, but to get very far in Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus, you need to review all the steps in your process. Showing your work in basic arithmetic is intended to build a habit that will be needed later, but seems pointless at the time.

As a design engineer I have notebooks full of “showing my work”, It allows me (and others) to see how I arrived at a particular conclusion.

I ALWAYS checked for a barf bag before we took off. Chances were I was going to need it, turbulence or not.

For a few decades, I’ve been thinking that if I were an arithmetic teacher, I’d say “convince me that you are right” rather than “show your work”.

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It was so succinctly put in “Life of Pi”: No one ever died from nausea, but it’s made more than a few people wish they would.

For some reason, I’ve got a high nausea to production ratio. I’ve got my license but I don’t drive my Buick much, so to speak. Which takes me back to when and where I learned that expression. Some of you might know that I dropped out of nursing school to go into the (sarcastic tone) ever so much more secure newspaper business. To prep for nursing school, I got my EMT certification. This was good training for newspaper, too, because you rapidly get used to uncomfortable discussions, and one popular such discussion concerned gag reflexes. And among the pros, the most common status is, as one instructor in particular worded it, “I don’t ever drive my Buick on my own, but if you start driving your Buick next to me, it’s gonna be a drag race.”

So, anyway. When I settle into my seat on a commercial flight, I do indeed scan for the air sickness bags. But not for me. So I can quickly hand one to the passenger next to me if need be. Otherwise, we might need two.

@NABU, So what you’re saying is that the plane was “Flying”? Um . . . ., very Interesting!