A chapter from my new book. Grown men playing phone games and Facebook. It was coming but I looked the other way. This was a terrible idea—blasting across the country in a hollow metal bird. There’s a 50/50 chance we pull through. Any second now, a bolt is gonna break and wing rip off. Wouldn’t that be something. I don't want to die alone. If I die with these people in a firey crash then I didn’t die alone, I died with overweight weirdos offering me chewing gum.
Carbs - and processed carbs, too - is why air travel with children is miserable. We are the ‘richest’ malnourished nation, ever, since the Dawn of Agricultural Civilization.
We flew four infant-to-preschoolers from LA to Tokyo in 2015. And we were in the front row (with the bassinet) (Singapore Airlines).
We were in the front row, and *everybody* (so it seemed) was already seated, so *everybody* watched us put our bags in the overhead compartments & buckle our seat belts. You could feel the collective apprehension 😂😂😂
But our kids were angels - because they were all eating very low to ultra-low carb 👍🙂, and high in healthful animal fat.
What’s still shocking to me, each ‘n’ every time, is how ticket agents & stewardesses & passengers, too, go out of their way to tell us - basically - how surprised they are by the children’s good behavior.
That’s just another way of saying that our society is sick, both body & mind, unimaginably sick compared to my Older Boomer parents’ childhood experience of the USA. And just another way of saying that our sick society weighs on me, emotionally. It’s heavy.
😂😂😂
Carbs - and processed carbs, too - is why air travel with children is miserable. We are the ‘richest’ malnourished nation, ever, since the Dawn of Agricultural Civilization.
We flew four infant-to-preschoolers from LA to Tokyo in 2015. And we were in the front row (with the bassinet) (Singapore Airlines).
We were in the front row, and *everybody* (so it seemed) was already seated, so *everybody* watched us put our bags in the overhead compartments & buckle our seat belts. You could feel the collective apprehension 😂😂😂
But our kids were angels - because they were all eating very low to ultra-low carb 👍🙂, and high in healthful animal fat.
What’s still shocking to me, each ‘n’ every time, is how ticket agents & stewardesses & passengers, too, go out of their way to tell us - basically - how surprised they are by the children’s good behavior.
That’s just another way of saying that our society is sick, both body & mind, unimaginably sick compared to my Older Boomer parents’ childhood experience of the USA. And just another way of saying that our sick society weighs on me, emotionally. It’s heavy.
Thanks,
Gerald
I love to hear this, thanks for sharing.
God bless
Very relatable and a funny perspective! Appreciate you reading my last essay as well!
Always a fun trip reading your stuff:) Congratulations on your book! You make me laugh and think. Thank you for that!!
Not gonna lie - rather you than me on this flight! V funny Chris 😂