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thenewgreen  ·  4291 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you afraid of?

I would definitely give my brother shit if he were in the same situation. -And I would expect he would me.

I flew to Austin last year and had a 50 year old woman sitting next to me. She warned me in advance that she was a "bad flyer". She grabbed my arm several times in fear. She was sweet and I talked her through it. Her way of handling it was to talk incessantly. Normally this would be obnoxious but she needed a friendly ear. Turned out her son was some tech-dude and I met him at the terminal. He gave me passes to a tech fair going on near my hotel. I went, thinking serendipity had struck and that I'd get to meet all sorts of interesting people. -It sucked. My only reward was being a good samaritan. -Man could she talk though.