The airplane was stuffed. Everyone was already seated when some guy, obviously late and sweating profusely, comes clambering onto the plane lugging a couple of bags. He scrambles up right next to me in my aisle seat, drops his bags and pulls out a ticket from his shirt pocket and checks it, his eyes darting […]

This is a story that is set back in the mid ’80s. I was working for GTE California at the time, and was on a business trip in Tampa, FL. I don’t recall the particular purpose, but I do remember travelling there with a coworker named Frank. First off, the weather in Florida was not […]