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Have I ever written before about my pet peeve?
It’s this. Since I do not enjoy airplane travel I simply won’t fly…and there’s loads of people who just WILL NOT leave me be about it!
Honestly, I’ve never heard of anything so stupid. If I am the one who is traveling someplace it’s up TO ME to decide what kind of transportation I shall use to get there. Period! I happen to love cruise ships. I also enjoy going across the country by train and seeing all the sights. So why should I get on a flying tin can for no other reason than to shut up the folks who get their undies in an uproar about it when it isn’t even their business in the first place?
I wish I had some of them on tape. You wouldn’t believe just how wacky they get. They become practically hysterical. And this is over my transportation choices that have nothing to do with them. I’m not telling them what to do. They’re telling me. It’s outrageous, and it would be pretty funny if the proponents of it weren’t absolutely so damned annoying.
All of them immediately start reciting – get this – car accident statistics to me. Yes. Accident statistics! You would have thought they’d all been programmed. They usually begin the routine with, “Flying is the safest form of transportation! Don’t you know that?”
“Yes,” I reply, “I do know that. But I don’t enjoy flying.”
“But you have more of a chance of being in an accident if you’re riding in a car! Haven’t you heard that?”
“YES,” I answer, a little more emphatically, usually with rolling eyeballs. “But I don’t enjoy flying so I don’t fly…” It’s always tough not to add a few very choice words there since these types are off and running. Nothing stops them, though. It would be a waste of breath.
“But you’ll never see the world if you don’t get on a plane,” their line of bull continues. By the way it’s always the same script, accident, accident, and an assumption about seeing the world. Always! Unbelievable!
My erudite but ignored reply? “I’ve seen plenty of the world. I’ve flown about twenty times. I don’t do it any longer because I DO NOT LIKE IT!”
Oh, these frequent flyers go on and on from there, but you get the general idea.
All I can say is…up, up and away with ’em all! As Frankie said I’ll do it my way.
What’s your pet peeve?