Good morning, Inkanaters!

All your fabulous greasy french fry drawings certainly made me want to pick less-healthy food choices this week. Nicely done. Now I’m sitting here, not only wishing I had a big greasy bag of fries, but also wishing I was on a beach somewhere with that bag of fries. The problem? I’m ridiculously afraid of flying and only my love of my family will convince me to get on a plane. Visit my parents? Sure thing. Go see a new grandbaby? Yes, obviously. Travel to see my adult kids? Not even a question. Go somewhere fun just to go? Ehhhh….

You see, I’m the crazy lady gripping the arm rest with every turbulence bump and squeezing my eyes shut on both takeoff AND landing. One time I fell sound asleep mid-flight and didn’t wake up in time to realize the flight was nearly over. When we finally touch down, we have a really hard landing and I’m jolted awake while my just-unconscious-two-seconds-ago brain thinks we’re crashing. So of course I start screaming. Loudly. I look over to my youngest two kids and they have these terrified looks on their faces (cuz I’m screaming but yeah I didn’t think that at the time), so now I’m SURE we’re crashing and I scream LOUDER. It takes a couple of seconds of looking around at other passengers and seeing buildings out the windows to realize we are indeed safe and I’m now the biggest lunatic on the plane.

Don’t get me wrong, I think airplanes are amazing inventions. I love the old propeller biplanes and really big chunky cargo planes. I get teary every time jets fly close overhead like they did every once in a while when we lived in the desert, and I’ve rewatched so many scenes from the new(ish) Top Gun movie just because the flying is so dang awesome.

So, yeah. If I have a REALLY good reason to fly, I’ll do it but if you see me at the airport, please know I’m a mess and don’t judge me for my jitters. Maybe just distract me with some french fries.

Love you lots,

*Alison *

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