USA Mega Trip - July & August 2022
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I'm pretty relaxed on the plane, not so in the scrum that is the airport…..
I don't think I would hate flying as much as I do if the whole process were more casual. Sorta just saunter into the airport, get served a drink on a platter, have someone walk up and take your bag, walk into the plane and enjoy the ride. Make it more like I'm being seated at a restaurant and less like I'm going away for 20 years for armed robbery
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People have forgotten how to act. Brandi tells me on almost every flight of a neighbor doing something unconscionable like watching TV without headphones at full volume, or flossing, or ignoring their kids as they kick chairs and scream uncontrollably (those kids have approximately a 0% chance of not becoming assholes themselves, and perhaps are well on their way already).
The human race is devolving into a cluster of islands unaccountable to anyone but oneself, and without a care about anyone else.
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Now you have touched a nerve.
A couple of flights ago, on the way back from Morocco, I sat next to a (quite large) guy, who watched shite on his phone for the whole flight, with no headphones.
When we landed, he asked me if he could use my phone to call his taxi, because he had run his phone battery to zero.
I told him that he could fuck right off…..
The next 10 minutes were a little uncomfortable, but FFS.....
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Getting stares for holding a door open still shocks me. I'm not trying to do anything sinister, just being polite and using some manners instilled in me from an early age. I am teaching my kids the same manners…just imagine the travesty and consequences for their futures...
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I hold doors for people if they're within a certain range regardless of their sex, and for any of them who have a problem with it… Well it's not my problem, it's theirs, and they can have it and I'll move on without a second thought. Sorry for them to carry such pointless and harmful mental formations, and I refuse to let them spread their issues to me. I have a harder time letting actions that impact me go, and I need to work on that, because people aren't becoming any less of assholes, and I don't need to escalate things as I am wont to do.
With all there is to worry about, or think about, or do, it's staggering that people get wrapped around the axle around general courtesy... People love being victims, don't they?
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Now you have touched a nerve.
A couple of flights ago, on the way back from Morocco, I sat next to a (quite large) guy, who watched shite on his phone for the whole flight, with no headphones.
When we landed, he asked me if he could use my phone to call his taxi, because he had run his phone battery to zero.
I told him that he could fuck right off…..
The next 10 minutes were a little uncomfortable, but FFS.....
HA! That one made me snort! The balls on that guy! LMAO
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I work in a pretty progressive area of LA and I still hold the doors open for folks at the local coffee shop. I keep waiting for someone to hassle me about it, but so far, everyone has been very sweet. I do make a greater effort to hold it open for women, I have to admit (terrible upbringing, I know!), but if I'm going through the door and anyone is close by behind, I'll hold it for them.
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…it's amazing where a simple, please or thank you will get you in life!! Simple wish is that everyone would just for 1 minute just think about someone else...
...and if you ever think that you are better than someone else, STOP...and check your attitude.
I'm sorry for derailing the thread and am off the soapbox now.
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…sounds like 'Chivalry' is not dead amongst my IH brothers!
...@mclaincausey 'Wrapped around the axel'. I'm using that one!
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I frequently get ignored when holding a door but I don’t think I’ve gotten any dirty looks. It’s just something I’ve always done so I really don’t think about it
I do get some heat if I say excuse me or pardon me like I’m being passive aggressive when I’m really just trying to excuse myself.
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Made it to the next stop of the trip…
Andros, Bahamas - Kira was born and raised here to two American parents that had both moved here separately for work, her mother in the fashion industry, her father a marine biologist. They met down here, and eventually built the house which Kira & I are staying in at the moment. They bought the plot of land way back when for $5,000... How times have changed!
Pics are a bit shitty because I just got back from a run and my hands were sweaty and we are also experiencing some haze which some think could be a saharan sand cloud.
The driveway, and our lovely Nissan Cube (US imported vehicles are very expensive, and the Bahamas drives on the left, so Japan wins)
Front garden
Back garden
And the little pathway to our next door neighbour and great friend, Mike, who taught me to dive when I was about 13. He left the hotel that @Giles @Madame Buttonfly and I used to holiday at, and that I interned at for a few summers as a Divemaster and build a villa rental on the plot next to ours. Luckily we get full use of it when he has no guests. Unluckily (for us) he is currently occupied
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Loving this thread @Alex and, as already said, some great photography by Kira.
Give our love to Andros and have an amazing time
