The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for September 10, 2014
September 09, 2014
September 11, 2014
Transcript:
This is your Captain…if you look out the left side of the plane. You'll see nothing at all that looks like your cellphone or tablet.
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Yes, thanks McCoys: I always have a window seat, because A. I’m claustrophobic when I’m not actually flying the plane (flying culverts) and B. Like to watch the outside world, and it’s amazing what you can see, even from 35,000 feet if you know what you’r seeing.
My first “movie flight” the stewardess told everyone to close their shades so people could enjoy the movie. This was pre TSA psychosis, and I asked her how she’d enjoy being thrown out of the airplane when she reached for my shade. A glance at my Cav pin, crew wings, and Disabled American Veterans pin on my cap seemed to catch her attention then and she politely responded with an “odd smile” “Well, Okay then.”…
Which brings to mind our “social mind set” that whenever close quarters are involved, as on trains or planes, Americans are the most “commuter minded”, unwilling to either regard those next to them, or the world they’re passing through, fixating instead on either a book, tablet, or phone that keeps them from seeing the real world.
The same thing now even applies when they visit Zion, the Grand Canyon, or other fantastic parts of that “real world”. They prefer the “quietude” of their personal world, even if it’s not as impressive, or even real, like video gaming while in these environments, or taking the false words of fools, over what they can see for themselves is “reality”.