As I mentioned awhile ago, the trip from Cheesecake City to Berlin had two layovers: Thirty-three minutes in Ohio and an hour in Paris. A rep from Delta told me “No stopping, no shopping” for the Ohio layover. The flight to Ohio actually got there a little early -YAY!- although I did not stop or shop, not even for Toblerone bars the size of tree trunks. Instead, I people watched and tried to guess who was American and who was French.<\/p>\n
(It was easy. Fanny packs = American. Dressed like a philosophy professor = French).<\/p>\n
(Gene did, however, have to remind me at least once that I was not allowed to spot check passports during the flight. It was a SURVEY, dammit).<\/p>\n
The flight to Paris lasted approximately 11 years, during which Gene slept (thanks to sleeping pills that really needed to work better!) and I read (a book called She’s Come Undone, which was awful. Left it in Berlin with strict instructions to read the book or burn the book, I didn’t care which). The plane did not have individual video monitors (jerks!), instead favoring the “monitor every ten rows” approach, which was fine since<\/p>\n
A) the movies were The Karate Kid and The Bounty Hunter and<\/p>\n
B) the monitor closest to our row was having a seizure and was turned off and<\/p>\n
C) the philosophy professor (seriously – grown man in red pants and truly crazy hair) in front of me kept politely leaning into the aisle, blocking my view and<\/p>\n
D) come to think of it, my earphones didn’t work anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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