New Hobbies and Blind Trust
Posted by Reviewer on 01/10/08 in Business
When my best friend decided he was going to start learning how to fly an airplane, I was all for it. After all, I wasn’t the one up there every day trying to learn how to remember the difference between ten different kinds of buttons and knobs so that I didn’t plummet to my death. That was for him and his growing knowledge of avionics and aircraft parts.
But, three months later when he had a pilot’s license in hand and a burgeoning desire to take all of his friends up into the sky and see if they didn’t soil they themselves, I was the first on the list and I was a bit apprehensive – not only to go up, but to let him know just how nervous I was. He was my best friend after all. How could I tell him that I thought bearings and joints from the plane were going to start twisting loose as soon as he touched a button? This was the same guy who used a slingshot to send poker chips over the freeway when we were 12 years old. What made him think he could fly a plane?
Lucky for both of us, he was now an adult, somewhat responsible and a heck of a pilot. I don’t get free trips, but I do dig getting to see the world from a mile or two up.
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