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g the flight i felt as if i were now out of the red outsmarting delta pushing the envelope the little bottles cost only 99 cents in connecticut if i had had a few more mini bottles i d be sitting pretty ahead of the game actually beginning to show a profit well almost i once went from berlin to london on ryan airlines ryan if i remember correctly was the airline that seriously considered charging a fee to use the restroom nice i would have gone broke i got to the berlin airport freuninggulingen no shaeuftshaffen no sheinifeld shoenefeld at six in the morning i had come from poland by taxi that morning got there overly early as is my way i was second in line we were the only two customers to have arrived so early for the flight i had one bag to check there were two conveyor belts moving luggage along to london and to ankara i didn t see the clerk put my lonely bag on the ankara belt i should have been watching i guess when i got to london i had no clothes 10 days in england and no clothes other than what i was wearing i won t tell you the whole sad story my bag met me in london on the 10th day having i assume enjoyed its own vacation in turkey we flew back to berlin together but we didn t talk to each other the entire flight another berlin to london flight on british airways was exciting after the pilot announced over the scratchy pa system that he thought the landing gear was stuck we were going to have to go in on our shiney sleek aluminum belly the pilot s voice was almost inaudible and he had a heavy english accent one of the many dorset maybe rs everywhere like old movie pirates aarrh matey wharr yer headin shiver me timbers emarrgency vehicles aarrh be preparrhin fer arrh landin aarh the plane was full of germans i a native english speaker was barely getting what the pilot was saying i didn t think that many of the germans got much of it but on the other hand maybe they had learned english from the english good possibility that they understood a lot more than i did now that i think of it when we approached gatwick or was it heathrow the emergency vehicles were lined up along the runway there were plenty of them fire trucks ambulances police hearses well maybe not hearses i had confidence in the pilot and the plane i don t think anyone else in the plane could say the same judging by their panicked expressions those pilots highly trained could slide it in on its fusilage belly buckle your seat belt it s gonna be a bumpy ride but the landing gear came down and we all rolled to a stop anticlimatic i m not complaining billy bob thornton said i m not afraid of flying i m afraid of crashing that about sums it up about these english accents ada and i flew from lax to london once and i had arranged in advance a rental car from the airport i never sleep on flights and by the time we reached the car rental desk in london i was exhausted i couldn t for the life of me understand what the english girl at the counter was telling me it was a friday i thought that she was telling me that my car wouldn t be available until monday she wasn t of course she was trying to tell me that my car would be a mondeo i was losing my temper not monday i said now ada had to translate mediate ada grew up in poland tell him the english girl would say tell her i would say oh the car is called mondeo nothing about monday it s waiting for us oh o k why didn t she say so i don t mind flying much once in awhile it s quick once you leave the ground gets you places you might not otherwise go somewhat uncomfortable never enough leg room and they always remind you how a seat belt works they show you give a demonstration that comes in handy because sometimes if you haven t used one in a few hours you might have forgotten sometimes you should bring along an english american dictionary or at least a phrase book several english speakers from various corners of the earth learned english english from the english beware and consider bringing some little bottles of booze if nothing else it gives you a sense that you re getting away with something even if you re not a drinker bring some trade one for a few more tiny bags of peanuts or pretzels if you ride ryan air bribe the stewardess to use the head without paying the fee endless possibilities endless 23 comments filed under uncategorized tagged as english accents flight august 9 2026 9 45 am beer not just a breakfast food anymore 1 comment filed under humor august 2 2026 12 45 am random stuff leave a comment filed under humor july 31 2026 7 36 am endurance so this guy is hiking high up in the montana mountains with two buddies somehow he accidently punctures himself with a trekking pole you can see it in the photo they huddle in order to discuss what to do the puncturee happens to be a nurse he evidently feels little or no pain seems surprised that the pole went through him he determines it to be only through soft tissue they decide to hike out rather than call for a rescue helicopter one story i read said that the hike took ten hours another story said six hours at any rate a long time to be hiking with a trekking pole sticking through you it could have been worse of course and they eventually made it to a clinic the nurse there said that she wouldn t take the pole out of him because she couldn t treat the bleeding he had to go to a hospital i m not sure how a man accidently impales himself with a trekking pole i read an article once about a construction worker who fell from above and impaled himself on a piece of rebar i think that it was quite a process to get him out of that situation again the puncture was not life threatening as i remember though there was a tremendous amount of pain involved he had to wait at the construction site until the authorities could figure out how best to release him at least that incident is understandable a terrible accident i seem to remember that the outcome was good he survived if he s still around i m sure he must telling the tale of that fall or his friends are telling it those montana hikers seem to all be in their early thirties maybe late twenties too old to be doing something stupid enough to get accidently impaled by a trekking pole yeah as kids most of us did stupid stuff with odd results at times but these guys seem beyond that stage in life i doubt that i ll ever hear a follow up on this particular story things are big news for a day or two but the follow ups are rare nowadays the news media is in a shambles anyhow real journalists are few and far between the news supervisors the editors the guy all the reporters in the movies call chief all of those people seem to be nowhere in sight otherwise we might have some follow up on major stories instead of going from one shiny news object to another to another maybe it s just me i want to hear a lot more about how this dude gets himself impaled on his trekking pole did he just roll over on it and it happened to be driven through his back if he fell how does that kind of a thing happen maybe it was all just the result of a clumsy fall what are his friends stories to explain it just curious not important overall just one of those many mysteries in life 1 comment filed under humor tagged as adventure backpacking hiking nature travel july 24 2026 1 49 am castles and rich people i wrote about the lord and ladies beds in the castle being built high up partly so that the rodents don t get up there maybe that was just speculative blather by the current runners of the castle the tourist inveiglers the castle caretakers made up bits of jibber jabber because it seems to me that most respectable rodents could easily climb up a wooden bed leg i think if i were a rodent that i could do it but what do i know the little story did remind me of one of my uncles though one of those odd random memories that emerge from the mental murk i almost wrote mental mist but that phrase seemed a bit too polite and misleading neighbors and relatives were gathered out in my mother s back yard maybe for 4th of july or perhaps for another holiday we were having a barbeque it was a longlong time ago most of the people i remember as i see it in my memory who were there at the time are long gone released long ago from their earthly travails my uncle was a lawyer he had been a lobbyist for nasa and i don t know what else along the way he made lots of money he married into a wealthy family too when i knew him he lived in brentwood a very wealthy section of los angeles he lived nearby the house that o j simpson lived in when o j was arrested he lived next to the la district attorney who my uncle was suing by the way for some inter neighborhood lawyerly squabble stuff his wife bragged about the tiles on the floors of their mansion that had been imported from italy they were very house proud it seemed mostly because the place cost so much maybe that s just me my faulty interpretation but i don t think so my uncle liked to drop names he threw names around long past his lobbyist days and i always knew long past when he actually had professional contact with powerful people and could have had some sway to influence things in my teaching days he told me a few times that he would put a good word in for me with the superintendent i always thanked him but i never held my breath waiting for a result no sid thompson or whomever had the job at the moment never called me oh i should say that old sid thompson did call my principal once however to discuss my actions yeah that old memory just managed to somehow briskly emerge out of the meandering murk the district had fourteen or so gun incidents all of a sudden one year they were not necessarily shootings but guns found with students at schools it became a big story in the papers the public got a little worked up after the publicity and concerned activists demanded action so the lausd solution was to send hand held metal detectors to every school oh there was some hastily written policy connected with it including that schools were supposed to pull ten students randomly from random classes once a day and wand them that was their solution i was working as dean at virgil middle school in those days and i was the one who were expected to pull the students out of class for the metal detector fishing expeditions oh it sounded good enough in the public relations i guess and bought some time but to me it was a nonsensical waste of time i sat down and wrote a letter to the la times about what a pr stunt it all was i don t remember what my letter said but it was well written and it pointed out the absurdity and pretense of the policy the times published the letter since the school gun incidents and the district response was still big news the principal called me into his office the next morning after the letter was published i got a call from sid thompson this morning he said i made some sarcastic comment about how at least we knew the superintendent could read i got along well with this particular principal and so i knew that he might appreciate the humor the principal let my rough attempt at humor go by and he said he wanted me to have a talk with you oh i said intimidation from the top that s a new one sometimes the truth hurts i guess poor sid i thought did shooting the messenger even work in ancient greece well then consider this the talk he said that was it he had done his job and i left his office and we both got to work but that s a side story means nothing this post is about rodents and high beds i think anyway at this barbeque several of the people there were loudly discussing the squirrels doing their high wire walks back and forth along the high strung telephone lines my uncle sidled up beside me and said quietly they think those are squirrels i looked again they were squirrels what are they i asked i was curious to hear what he would say rats he said definitively my house is full of them i wondered if he had high beds in his house no i didn t wonder that because i only recently learned about the high bed castle reasons i just thought of that now hey a man s house is his castle they all say that i wonder if he had no handed clocks in his house too but i guess that s not fair mean i should say that when i was a small kid he was my favorite uncle my mother his older sister would have said he meant well anyway he had all of his fingers and no extras on his other hand see previous post a man s home is his castle they all say that but maybe we shouldn t drag the analogy too far leave a comment filed under humor tagged as family life writing july 22 2026 7 51 am castles they say a man s home is his castle whoever they are ada and i happened to be in slovakia for a day to tour a castle well the castle in the pictures here is the second slovakian castle that we toured the first one we went to a few days before seems a bit strange now that i m thinking of it but there it is we were in a polish town called zakopane for a week and the son of the couple whom we travelled with lives in zakopane he drove us all over the border to among other tourist things visit the castles this second castle seemed a lot more severe that the first one higher and more massive visitors were able to climb up through the rooms if they had the proper ticket very cheap and the stamina to get up the steps of course in the earliest days there were no steps up to various defensive sections there would have been ladders it was extensive and built over centuries we ve been to castles in the united kingdom they seem tame in comparison to these slovakian things we ve been to castles in ireland mostly in ruins i never got much of a sense of the people who built and lived in the places what feudalism was really all about in these slovakian castles i had a better conception of that of feudalism in this second slovakian castle there were several rooms of former residence ada stood out on an overlook to the town below i could imagine the lording it over aspects of being able to look down upon and survey the peasantry good for defense too of course somehow in visiting the british and the irish castles i never had that realization that the people who owned the castles were really the lords of the manor so to speak one room in this castle the one pictured had portraits of the owners over the centuries in one painting the fancy lord seemed to have six fingers on one hand and four on the other the local tale mentioned on a note was that he took with six fingers and gave with four that kind of set the tone for me gave a lot of inside information also the master s bed was high up off the floor and one of the reasons for this was mentioned that the height discouraged rodents this bed was in a room way up toward the top of the place so that told me a lot too one more mention above a servant s bed was a clock but it had no hands this was supposedly to impress upon the servants that they were to be available 24 hours a day why not simply have no clock what use is a clock ...