LADY, YOU REALLY NEED THAT DONUT?

Since the plane to Myrtle Beach was being delayed, we decided to go wait in the boarding area and find a seat. Finding a seat is important because if you don’t you have to either stand or lay on the floor. I am a people watcher by nature, I like to watch people and wonder where they are going or what they do for a living or how many banks they robbed. We were lucky in that we found seats that gave us a sweeping view of the whole waiting room and the abundance of characters that inhabited it. They are large and small, black and white and Asian, young and old alike.

 

The boarding area was getting crowded by only one person, seated next to TLW (The Little Woman) was this lady who was about 350 to 400 lbs, eating a donut and on the floor is a Frappuccino at her feet. Watching her eat this donut I wondered if she really needed the donut. She answered my question by reaching into her brown bag and taking out another donut, after licking her fingers from the first donut. I must say though that she WAS getting her exercise, she would reach down for the Frappuccino with a grunt!

By now, the people from the next flight to Dallas were arriving and beginning to fill the area along

with those of us headed for Myrtle Beach, where they were redirected to another boarding gate. Suddenly, my biggest fear along with having to sit next to the donut lady on the plane arrived. It came in the form of a young family, a father, mother brother and little screaming sister! The sweet and adorable little creature had her pants on fire or so it seemed, screaming to the top of her lungs and squirming unhappily like someone was torturing her. I wanted to.

I surveyed the room and calculated what the odds were of sitting next to the fat lady, or next to the screamer, or worst still sitting next to both on the plane. To calculate my bad luck, you enter 100%, divided by 0 and add 100 and you should get a decent estimation.

And so the plane’s departure time was getting even later as the plane was being held up by weather and traffic, and so I sat and watched.

Tomorrow: IN THE ‘SPIRIT’ OF THINGS.