#airplanestories

[debbidimaggioblog]

At first glance I thought to ask, “are you a basketball 🏀 player?” I said this to myself as I squeezed in between two very tall passengers on our Southwest flight from Oakland to Denver en route to Vail. I learned his name later, and to my right was a tall woman on her iPad doing a puzzle. “That’s Cool,” I said.” #WhoKnew. You can do just about anything these days on a computer that you can do in our physical world. I thought bubbled to myself. The tall man in sunglasses 🕶 pulled out some mints and offered them to us. #NoteToSelf Locate those mints. So good! ... he says take as many as you want. I sat there 🤔 thinking... 2.5 hours, what am I going to do? I thought about writing but nothing was streaming, so I closed my eyes and thankfully 🙏🏻 fell asleep. Not for very long, but it got me over the hump. Then my mind started streaming so I pulled out my iPhone 📱 and started taking notes. #ToDo. As I was typing I heard the tall lanky guy ask.... “Where would you live, Colorado or California.” We hadn’t spoken the entire trip, lucky for him as I had an answer. I always have an opinion & advice. (Moms.) And my answers are more like long winded thoughts 💭. I said both are beautiful but I’d get a little bored full time in Colorado. I asked, why? He went on to say he has applied for a job without much thought or plan. The company called right away and offered to fly him out to CA. He was not only offered the job but would be paying him 3x more! I said if you were my son or daughter I’d tell you to take it. You can always go back. Adam heard the conversation and agreed. That’s when we formally introduced ourselves. He had been agonizing the entire trip and as we were about to land he thought, “why don’t I just ask this lady.” He did. I spoke. I am pretty certain Ted is taking the job and yes, he’ll become part of the family. First outing when he moves out, the Napa Valley. If you don’t ask you never know. If you don’t go for it you’ll lose out. Ted told Adam and I that we should Tour the world 🌎 guiding and mentoring people. Always a thought of ours. #JustDoIt #Absolutely #NoRegrets #foundation4success #mentor #inspire #giveback #airplanestories #noshortageonadvice (at Denver International Airport)

[debbidimaggioblog]

At first glance I thought to ask, “are you a basketball 🏀 player?” I said this to myself as I squeezed in between two very tall passengers on our Southwest flight from Oakland to Denver en route to Vail. I learned his name later, and to my right was a tall woman on her iPad doing a puzzle. “That’s Cool,” I said.” #WhoKnew. You can do just about anything these days on a computer that you can do in our physical world. I thought bubbled to myself. The tall man in sunglasses 🕶 pulled out some mints and offered them to us. #NoteToSelf Locate those mints. So good! ... he says take as many as you want. I sat there 🤔 thinking... 2.5 hours, what am I going to do? I thought about writing but nothing was streaming, so I closed my eyes and thankfully 🙏🏻 fell asleep. Not for very long, but it got me over the hump. Then my mind started streaming so I pulled out my iPhone 📱 and started taking notes. #ToDo. As I was typing I heard the tall lanky guy ask.... “Where would you live, Colorado or California.” We hadn’t spoken the entire trip, lucky for him as I had an answer. I always have an opinion & advice. (Moms.) And my answers are more like long winded thoughts 💭. I said both are beautiful but I’d get a little bored full time in Colorado. I asked, why? He went on to say he has applied for a job without much thought or plan. The company called right away and offered to fly him out to CA. He was not only offered the job but would be paying him 3x more! I said if you were my son or daughter I’d tell you to take it. You can always go back. Adam heard the conversation and agreed. That’s when we formally introduced ourselves. He had been agonizing the entire trip and as we were about to land he thought, “why don’t I just ask this lady.” He did. I spoke. I am pretty certain Ted is taking the job and yes, he’ll become part of the family. First outing when he moves out, the Napa Valley. If you don’t ask you never know. If you don’t go for it you’ll lose out. Ted told Adam and I that we should Tour the world 🌎 guiding and mentoring people. Always a thought of ours. #JustDoIt #Absolutely #NoRegrets #foundation4success #mentor #inspire #giveback #airplanestories #noshortageonadvice (at Denver International Airport)

[debbidimaggioblog]

At first glance I thought to ask, “are you a basketball 🏀 player?” I said this to myself as I squeezed in between two very tall passengers on our Southwest flight from Oakland to Denver en route to Vail. I learned his name later, and to my right was a tall woman on her iPad doing a puzzle. “That’s Cool,” I said.” #WhoKnew. You can do just about anything these days on a computer that you can do in our physical world. I thought bubbled to myself. The tall man in sunglasses 🕶 pulled out some mints and offered them to us. #NoteToSelf Locate those mints. So good! ... he says take as many as you want. I sat there 🤔 thinking... 2.5 hours, what am I going to do? I thought about writing but nothing was streaming, so I closed my eyes and thankfully 🙏🏻 fell asleep. Not for very long, but it got me over the hump. Then my mind started streaming so I pulled out my iPhone 📱 and started taking notes. #ToDo. As I was typing I heard the tall lanky guy ask.... “Where would you live, Colorado or California.” We hadn’t spoken the entire trip, lucky for him as I had an answer. I always have an opinion & advice. (Moms.) And my answers are more like long winded thoughts 💭. I said both are beautiful but I’d get a little bored full time in Colorado. I asked, why? He went on to say he has applied for a job without much thought or plan. The company called right away and offered to fly him out to CA. He was not only offered the job but would be paying him 3x more! I said if you were my son or daughter I’d tell you to take it. You can always go back. Adam heard the conversation and agreed. That’s when we formally introduced ourselves. He had been agonizing the entire trip and as we were about to land he thought, “why don’t I just ask this lady.” He did. I spoke. I am pretty certain Ted is taking the job and yes, he’ll become part of the family. First outing when he moves out, the Napa Valley. If you don’t ask you never know. If you don’t go for it you’ll lose out. Ted told Adam and I that we should Tour the world 🌎 guiding and mentoring people. Always a thought of ours. #JustDoIt #Absolutely #NoRegrets #foundation4success #mentor #inspire #giveback #airplanestories #noshortageonadvice (at Denver International Airport)

[elizabetharzani]

The Gentleman That Said He Was Traveling to Rome Without his Mediocre Wife And Counted As He Stirred His Tea While Reading The Obituaries, 2017

[aeheadphones]

I was in Long Beach airport yesterday flying back to SF. The flight was delayed so I had some good hang time. As I sat in the bar, with my headphones around my neck, I noticed person after person kinda staring at me. I wish I could say it was my dashing good looks but I know that ain't true! I realized it must be the headphones. Later, on the plane, I had the flight attendant come up and ask me who made my headphones. I launched into quite the sales pitch. He actually said that I was totally distracting him during his safety demonstration because he couldn't take his eyes off the headphones!!! He also said he assumed they would be $300 or $400! He wrote the name of the company down and shared it with the other flight attendants who were also gawking at my cans.

Peter Judd of HUB Strategy