Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Healing Power...

Flying into or out of San Diego always makes for interesting travel companions. I’m not saying there’s a lot of hippies on those flights…I’m just saying they don’t look very “pro-American”. On my way to Baltimore on Sunday, they must have been running the misfit express because no sooner had I settled into my comfy seat in the exit row than a disheveled, eccentric looking fellow came sauntering down the aisle and sat down beside me (and I thought they had already caught the unabomber).

Lucky me…this guy is reading “The Secret Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons”. And if that wasn’t enough, he kept trying to cover the thing like he was reading the National Intelligence Briefing or something. Did he think I was going to steal his super-secret orc strategy?

It was only after 500 miles I realized that the dust cover for “The Secret Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons” was a decoy and the REAL title of the book was…"The Healing Power of Cannabis". I love it. This guy totally goes to the trouble of putting an entirely new dust cover so (non-nosy) people won’t see what he’s reading.

I couldn’t help but think of a couple things:
  • No WONDER he tried to grab 7 items from the snack-pack buffet…and NO you can’t order a pizza from row 16.
  • Given that this was a Southwest flight, what are the odds that my seatmate could even READ?
  • Well now THAT would guarantee a strip search at the ol’ TSA station, wouldn’t it?
  • Was “The Secret Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons” his attempt at normalcy…dude, we gotta talk.
  • Does that particular decoy mean the last non-Cannabis book you read is from 1983?
  • The “Healing Power”??? Apparently not for B.O. or paranoia. Just sayin’
  • Let me get this straight…I can’t bring a bottle of shampoo on this flight…but Mr. Kaczynski here can bring a pan of brownies?
  • Nice Obama shirt
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Anonymous said...

Hey Maeve, I think you finally hit on the reason you're flights are so 'interesting' - it's not San Diego, it's Southwest Airlines. Someone who's living among $7000 rugs should step it up a notch and fly American Airlines along with all of those San Diego Navy captains and people returning from their San Diego holistic spa vacations. Of course then the only things you'd be able to read over your seatmate's shoulder would be Jane's Defense Weekly or The Yoga Journal.

October 23, 2008 at 12:23 PM

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