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Default Complete this famous boating sentence...

H the K wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:35:31 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:24 -0400, H the K
wrote:

"Here, hold my beer while I..."
My first flying instructor to me the two scariest words in aviation
a " Watch this ".

I'm on my toes when anybody, anywhere says that.
Time to duck.

--Vic




I took the $25 flying lesson (that's what it cost way back then) and was
interested in learning, until a buddy from the Michigan State Democratic
Committee, with whom I worked on a campaign, died when his private plane
crashed. Years later, I guess in the early 1980's, another friend, a
printer who did all the forms printing for several clients, died when
his biplane crashed into a highway bridge.

That sorta did it for me.

I really dislike flying, even commercial. I like the time savings to get
to a distant location, but that's it. Everything about the "flying
experience" these days, from booking a ticket to hoping your luggage
made it, pretty much sucks.



Very true. There are so many unions involved it really makes it a pain
in the ass.