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On-going WP issues necessitated login entries which could not be repeated less than two minutes apart.
Two minutes, what’s that? Funny, I remember a very long time ago, waiting by a time clock to punch out when two minutes seemed endless.
Though when it was the other way around and you were running late, two minutes suddenly evaporated and you got docked and in trouble.
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In the airline world, timing was everything.
A single minute late off chox constituted a delay which had to be accounted for! We followed precision timing:
In no particular order: Crew pick-up, catering order, loading diagram issue, boarding commenced, last bags from baggage room, door closed, etc. There were so many components.
Endless occurrences can foul up the whole thing, but we tried. God knows we tried to comply.
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Hard to believe, I know, that airline staff actually put an effort into getting flights out on time, but if you think a delay ruined your day, I can assure you it was way more tedious for us.
Even on a good day, every passenger you met was a potential problem of some sort. Overweight baggage, too much baggage. Seating issues, ticketing issues, passport issues.
Often the passenger was just a dick.
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One time, a passenger complained about his seat which happened to be exactly what he had requested. It turned out he did not know what a bulkhead was.
He was taking a lady friend on a quickie to Bermuda and presumably wanted to impress her with his importance. He announced that he was a justice of some sort.
Didn’t we know?
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The flight was full and the man had what he’d requested, so there was nothing to be done and we needed to close the door. “What’s your name?” he growled. So I told him.
“Spell it!” he demanded.
“You can’t spell Smith?”
I mean, a justice, should know.
Yes, I actually said it.
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It may be that I didn’t have an abundance of respect.
Generally, it’s something that has to be earned, but as a client you are entitled, until you act like a bully or an idiot.
That was in the days when passengers had some small level of decorum. From all reports, these days flying is a total free-for-all.
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WP dragged me off again, but I didn’t intend to go there.
Timing issues. It was inevitable.
Time is precious, not to be wasted, so while I waited for two whole minutes to pass, I tuned in to YouTube.
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And I discovered that there is such a thing as:
The Bennington Triangle, an area in the Green Mountains of Vermont centered on Glastenbury Mountain and the towns of Woodford, Shaftsbury and Somerset.
Like the more famous Bermuda Triangle, it is an area famous for mysterious disappearances, five between 1945 and 1950 but several more since.
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There are many stories hereabouts and in many rural parts of the USA which involve Bigfoot sightings and along the Hudson River Valley there have been a good many UFO reportings.
While I have never seen a UFO myself, I am convinced that it is unlikely that mankind is alone in the Universe.
Maybe mankind even originated elsewhere?
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Perhaps I was influenced by an accounting of the Toraja people of Sulawesi, the Star People.
Human culture had always fascinated me, so I was captivated by the BBC series Ring of Fire and by the book upon which it was based, by Lorne and Lawrence Blair
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The Toraja tribe…the people from above…asked where they were from, they replied:
“Before the dawn of human memory our ancestors descended from the Pleiades in skyships.”
They still build their houses in the arc-like forms, they say, of the ships which once brought them, and their funerl rites, which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance, are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins.
Indonesia is wondrous. Here is a clip from the BBC program:
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Not many years after that program was filmed, I was fortunate enough to travel to some fairly remote parts of Indonesia
The country is vast and quite varied and I saw but a fraction, but it left a deep impression.
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Savu Island dancers.
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The people were beautiful.
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The textiles and costumes also.
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Often, when with an escorted group, you wonder how much is put on for your benefit and certainly the dances were, but much of what we saw reflected what I had seen in the BBC program. We even met one of the characters mentioned.
It seemed to me that one could acquire a lot of knowledge from the people of these islands, that you would not learn in college.
They were still in touch, in a way too many of us have not been for a very long time.
Thank you, WP for the reminder.
What a fascinating post, Carolyn, you have created today! I have unexplained feelings too that we came from somewhere in the universe, and on seeing some action on Mars, without thinking exclaimed! “Motherland! Sounds mad, I know! The video is unmissable, and what I saw will never be forgotten I love the additional story of the obnoxious man who couldn’t spell your name!
Thank you, Carolyn, for such an interesting story!
Joanna
What a fascinating video!
So you are also having login issues? Something is going on at WordPress, and I doubt that something is anything good.
It would be nice to see a UFO, and to imagine that humans were dropped on Earth from another galaxy. It is something I read a great deal about during the 1970s, but sadly I have yet to see any evidence that can completely convince me. The thing that maintains my marginal interest is the fact that Area 51 is secure and government controlled. That alone suggests there is some truth in the UFO stories.
Best wishes, Pete.
I think we get visited from time to time!
Wow, WP issues have now taken you on an incredible trip! I think you have a very active brain (which is probably a good thing) … I would have gone and made a cup of tea in those two minutes – haha! Aliens? I have no idea if there is such a thing, but when some places are forbidden terrain, it makes one wonder what is there that “they” don’t want you to see. But I’m not going to dwell on this any further now … I’m going to make a cup of tea!