but no one’s happy. . . !

The other day I was riding the train with some friends and we were going downtown to spend the day shopping and having lunch. This was a girls day and the train was kind of crowded. I like riding the train as I get to people watch and see what they’re wearing, listen to their conversations, etc. I especially look at the shoes people wear for obvious reasons. On this particular day I was at the end of the group I was with and I was in perfect ear shot distance of a guy and what looked like his wife but not positive on that.

This guy was bending her ear about all the struggles he had over the past week. In particular, how the Internet wouldn’t work on an airplane. I was listening to him squawk about this horrendous inconvenience flying from Chicago to San Francisco. This guy looked educated and was dressed nice so it’s not as if he’s an idiot or something but this conversation made me think. The woman was right there with him agreeing with this guy about how awful it must have been. Seriously? It was awful?

First of all, the fact that you’re sitting in a comfortable chair flying to California at 36,000 feet is an amazing accomplishment on its own and that it will probably take you about three hours to get there perfectly safe and within minutes of the scheduled arrival time is nothing to sneeze at either. These obvious facts go completely unnoticed as this whiner forgot that not too many years ago people would go the same distance in covered wagons and would take months and people would die from a long list of dangerous things. Too long of a list to post here. It’s like a year long camping trip only 10 times worse. This guy is there in three hours. It takes that long to have dinner at Charlie Trotters.

I wondered to myself if this person is so accustomed to having everything that he doesn’t realize how incredible anything is. He’s complaining about not having Internet on an airplane. . . ! that’s awful. . . ! I would sue that airline. . . . !

I got off the train and my friends and I spoke about this at lunch and we came to the conclusion that people should keep their conversations quiet for fear they may end up a bullet point on a blog.

Everything is completely amazing and people are still unhappy.

Julie

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