{"id":8,"date":"2003-07-08T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodneycornelius.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2003-07-08T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T20:32:00","slug":"on-the-flight-to-brussels-or-cocoon-3-the-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On the Flight to Brussels&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;Cocoon 3: The Reunion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am on the flight, typing this, even though I know that actually submit this until I land and reconnect, but it actually cool that I can begin to write this now, and then post it when I have a later opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I get to the airport in plenty of time (for a change).  And after a brief argument with the check-in agent (over something stupid), I get my boarding pass and then go to the gate.  Except I am so early that there is no one there.  So I decide to do what anyone does in a predicament like that.  I hit the bar.  I order a Absolut Vanilla Vodka and ginger ale.  The drink is so strong it knocks me right off my ass (that and I have not drank anything since Thursday).  I literally am stumbling onto the plane (thanks to the 3\/4ths alcohol 1\/4ths ginger ale drink).  Where I sit down and relax only to find that the plane has come with &#8220;the crying baby&#8221; attached installed.  I always wonder why the airline gods curse me, by putting crying babies literally in my lap.  Luckily, I have Bose (c) Noise-Cancelling Headphone, which drown out both the baby and that important safety information&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So here I type now, after I nice meal in-flight (chicken and garlic&#8230;I better not talk to anyone&#8230;oh wait, I have Altoids strips&#8230;the day is saved!), I am now typing away and working on e-mail and scoping out the cuties on the plane (there aren&#8217;t many&#8230;this flight must be in association with Mugly Airline.  And now there is a gross old lady with her ass in my face.  It&#8217;s soooo gross&#8230;.I&#8217;m gonna barf those 4 beers I had in the first 30 minutes of the flight.  And now her stomach blocks my keypad.  So round, so plump.  Has Santa had a sex change.  I am sur that she would be polite and kind, if only she could pull the slabs of wrinkly flesh from over her eyes to realise that her stomach &#8212; which I suspect are her breasts plummeting towards her knees, are in my way&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, ignore that little tirade.  She&#8217;s gone now&#8230;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s enough for now.  I am in a rare mood&#8230; <b>apprehensive<\/b>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh wait&#8230;that woman might not be a woman baby&#8230;it might be a man-man.  I feel like grabbing it&#8217;s hair and shouting &#8220;why won&#8217;t this wig come off?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Eeeeeekkk&#8230;..the thing just smiled in my direction!!!  Rodney is scared&#8230;.Rodney tries to hide the overhead storage bin&#8230;.this is unbearable&#8230;the smell of old washes over me&#8230;I want nothing more than an escape pod or a transporter.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, ok, I am leaving now.  I realise just how little sense this is making, and perhaps this random stream of consciousness was better left in my own head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am on the flight, typing this, even though I know that actually submit this until I land and reconnect, but it actually cool that I can begin to write this now, and then post it when I have a later opportunity to do so. I get to the airport in plenty of time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Flight to Brussels&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;Cocoon 3: The Reunion&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}