Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Its all about the Thickness!
Catchy title huh? Well its true. Been doing lots of travel lately. So you know what that means. I have developed a keen appreciation for the Air Sickness bag! Ah that oh so often overlooked, but vitally important component of any aircrafts saftey features. Its certainly a good thing that with all the cuts the airlines have been making lately that they havent really skimped out on this little ditty.
Although I will admit that sometimes they arent as readily available as they should be. I had the recent unfortunate fortune to happen to call one of these puppies into action.
Though I am of the unfortunate ilk to suffer from severe motion sickness, I am coincidentally in the postion where by my business dealings to require a considerable amount of travel. This has lead me to be prepared by whatever means possible for whatever. Normally the motion sickness can be controlled with some dramamine (good stuff!) but this time it was different.
Yeah I just had to raid the barbeque leftovers later that night, for a pulled pork and Monterrey jack cheese late night sandwich. Only did I not notice that the Monterrey jack cheese that I absconded contained the dreaded jalapeno. Again normally contrallable in small doses with large doses of pepto bismal, and milk, but instead slathered in BBQ sauce and in pulled pork that had been basically sitting in a foil pan outdoors for a good 10 hours - nicely seasoned - ahem - well the old axiom "party today, tommorrow you pay" mean anything?
Well in only a few short hours, I began to realize that this was no benign sandwich as a battle raged within my insides.
The next day a rather large airplane voyage loomed and I was not quite right. I had the good presence to immediately after boarding seek out the airsickness bag, knowing that this trip would probably be more than even a double dose of the dramamine could handle. It was of course in sheer horror that I discovered that the seatback in front of me did not have one there! Not quite in emergency state of panic were we in the air and this were an actual airsick emergency, mind you, but more of just an excited and my heart is racing quicker sort of a panic.
Immediately I checked the seatback in the seat right next to me - being abrupt so as to not raise the ire of the potential tennant of that seat to my prodding "thier space" I quickly extracted the airsick bag and slipped it into my seatback.
Fully secure in that its rightful owner did not see, I pulled it out to further examine the bag. Once again this is a manuever that only an experienced oft airsick traveller will think of - since you occaisionally encounter that the bag has been sealed shut quite nicely by some previous passenger deciding to use it as a gum parker. Sure enough - as I examined the bag I had recently acquired I noted that it was indeed the case. Now what? As I was out of chairs in my row....
Aha - there was no one sitting behind me yet!
I stealfully reached into the seatback directly behind me and claimed as my own a fully functional - thankfully not yet used for any reason Airsick bag.
Remarkably enough throughout the duration of this flight it wasnt even necessary.
The passengers on the next flight werent quite so fortunate.
At least this time the proper "saftey equipment" was fully included in the seatback of the seat I sat in when I sat in it. For the better part of this 3 hour flight the bag wasnt even needed at all. But in that last few minutes - those fateful few minutes that can drastically alter peoples destiny, I got quite the admiration for the amazing amount of volume that one of those little white bags can hold.
I am also remarkably thankful for its durablity and stregnth.
Its that sheer layer of plastic that separtes a dignified exit from the vessel
from a most ignominious departure.
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Catchy title huh? Well its true. Been doing lots of travel lately. So you know what that means. I have developed a keen appreciation for the Air Sickness bag! Ah that oh so often overlooked, but vitally important component of any aircrafts saftey features. Its certainly a good thing that with all the cuts the airlines have been making lately that they havent really skimped out on this little ditty.
Although I will admit that sometimes they arent as readily available as they should be. I had the recent unfortunate fortune to happen to call one of these puppies into action.
Though I am of the unfortunate ilk to suffer from severe motion sickness, I am coincidentally in the postion where by my business dealings to require a considerable amount of travel. This has lead me to be prepared by whatever means possible for whatever. Normally the motion sickness can be controlled with some dramamine (good stuff!) but this time it was different.
Yeah I just had to raid the barbeque leftovers later that night, for a pulled pork and Monterrey jack cheese late night sandwich. Only did I not notice that the Monterrey jack cheese that I absconded contained the dreaded jalapeno. Again normally contrallable in small doses with large doses of pepto bismal, and milk, but instead slathered in BBQ sauce and in pulled pork that had been basically sitting in a foil pan outdoors for a good 10 hours - nicely seasoned - ahem - well the old axiom "party today, tommorrow you pay" mean anything?
Well in only a few short hours, I began to realize that this was no benign sandwich as a battle raged within my insides.
The next day a rather large airplane voyage loomed and I was not quite right. I had the good presence to immediately after boarding seek out the airsickness bag, knowing that this trip would probably be more than even a double dose of the dramamine could handle. It was of course in sheer horror that I discovered that the seatback in front of me did not have one there! Not quite in emergency state of panic were we in the air and this were an actual airsick emergency, mind you, but more of just an excited and my heart is racing quicker sort of a panic.
Immediately I checked the seatback in the seat right next to me - being abrupt so as to not raise the ire of the potential tennant of that seat to my prodding "thier space" I quickly extracted the airsick bag and slipped it into my seatback.
Fully secure in that its rightful owner did not see, I pulled it out to further examine the bag. Once again this is a manuever that only an experienced oft airsick traveller will think of - since you occaisionally encounter that the bag has been sealed shut quite nicely by some previous passenger deciding to use it as a gum parker. Sure enough - as I examined the bag I had recently acquired I noted that it was indeed the case. Now what? As I was out of chairs in my row....
Aha - there was no one sitting behind me yet!
I stealfully reached into the seatback directly behind me and claimed as my own a fully functional - thankfully not yet used for any reason Airsick bag.
Remarkably enough throughout the duration of this flight it wasnt even necessary.
The passengers on the next flight werent quite so fortunate.
At least this time the proper "saftey equipment" was fully included in the seatback of the seat I sat in when I sat in it. For the better part of this 3 hour flight the bag wasnt even needed at all. But in that last few minutes - those fateful few minutes that can drastically alter peoples destiny, I got quite the admiration for the amazing amount of volume that one of those little white bags can hold.
I am also remarkably thankful for its durablity and stregnth.
Its that sheer layer of plastic that separtes a dignified exit from the vessel
from a most ignominious departure.
GET THE WINNERS, Get the EDGE!
www.theNFLedge.com
