I’ve crossed the tarmac a couple of times for turboprops. Also I’ve been in private jets, which do indeed have fewer than 100 seats.
I got my first glasses at age seven, after my third-grade told my mom I was doing better in class “once I moved her up so she could see the board.” Before that, I’d always had the reputation in my family of being kind of spacy and not paying attention to my surroundings. In fact, I was just really nearsighted! My eyesight got worse every year, so I had to get new glasses regularly.
I remember getting progressive lenses because I was doing step aerobics at the time, and it was really hard to retrain myself to not glance down through my glasses. I’ve done fine with them ever since. My uncorrected vision is very bad; I used to be able to see clearly only about 18 inches away, and since my near vision started to deteriorate, it’s now a range of about 4 inches from 8 - 12 inches away.
My dental hygiene routine is very complex. I use an electric toothbrush with a non-foaming gel my hygienist recommended, then use waxed floss, then a Water-Pik, then brush again with a fluoride treatment. It’s a lot, but I have terrible teeth and they haven’t gotten any worse since I started it. My teeth always feel like they’ve just been cleaned.
I remember the days before jetways, when all planes were boarded from staircases on the tarmac. The two times I’ve been on a flight that used them in modern times, it was because there was a problem with the jetway.
Well, “regional jet” didn’t really exist as a class of airplane until the 1990s, so you really just need to remember if it had propellers or not. At a smaller airport in that era, if it was a jet it most likely would have been a DC-9, 727, or 737.
Fun fact: One of the reasons the DC-9 and 727 had tail mounted engines was so the landing gear could be shorter, to make the plane easier to service at small airports that might not have jet bridges, baggage belts, and such.
Anyway, I’ve boarded 737s and A320s via stairs at Kona, Hawaii; Havana, Cuba; Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Santorini, Greece. Turboprops at Sacramento and San Francisco, and regional jets at more places than I can remember.
I remember from Ken Burns’s recent excellent documentary on Ernest Hemingway, that very late in his life, clearly mentally ill, the author had to be restrained from walking into a spinning propeller when he was crossing an airport tarmac on foot. Very sad.
Re: pets. I’ve had three dogs over the years, four cats (including my two current house-panthers), plus a hamster and a pair of gerbils, which were technically the “property” of my wife’s class – she taught elementary school, and she brought them home over the weekends, and when school was out. I also had a school of Sea-Monkeys for a few months – a gag gift, given to me by my secretary at my first job.
When I was younger, I really wanted a pet ferret, but never got one.
Huh, no guinea pigs.
I’ve boarded a lot of planes via staircases. I’m not exactly certain which were which, but we boarded by walking outdoors for an international flight in Iceland, and I’m guessing that was a large jet. (It was very windy and i was worried I’d lose my documents.) I also used to fly the eastern air shuttle into Newark back when it was all rolling staircases.
I voted all the options. That’s probably true.
I use fuzzy plastic toothpicks
I’m not sure if that counted as toothpicks or pick flossers. I also use a manual toothbrush. Numerous dentists have praised my brushing, so I’ve never felt the need to change it. As for the picks, numerous dentists have told me i need to floss better. These picks seem to do the job, and my current dentist is excited I’ve found something that works. My teeth are close enough together that it’s very hard to force string floss in there, and sometimes bits of it get cut off and get stuck between my teeth. So hard that i once had a hygienist give up and ask me to do it. I just glowered and told her that’s why i don’t floss regularly.
I floss once a week at a minimum, and always if I eat something that leaves lots of stuff caught in my teeth (especially corn on the cob). Every year my dentist tells me to floss more… and then compliments me on my excellent teeth.
Well, I was always told flossing was more for your gums than your teeth, so that makes sense.
But I don’t.
“Airplane” is pretty much one thing in my head. I’d probably notice one of the ancient ones with double wings, and I’d notice one so small that it only held half a dozen passengers, and I notice the difference between helicopters and airplanes. But that’s about it. – that is, when I was looking at the plane on the way out to it, if you’d asked me if it had propellers I’d have been able to answer. But it’s not something I’d particularly remember.
– what happened to horses on the pet poll? I badly wanted one, and for a little while sort-of had one, though she was really the neighbors’.
ETA: I have a congenitally-missing tooth on one side of my mouth, which has resulted in just enough space between the existing teeth (which over the years have slid around to mostly fill up the gap) so that things get stuck in my teeth all. the. time. I floss almost every time I eat something.
(Yes, a cosmetic dentist could have lots of expensive fun fixing that. I don’ wanna, even if I could afford it. As long as I do get the bits of food out it’s not doing any harm.)
Mom worked for AA starting when I was in kindergarten and we flew a lot when I wa a kid. I’m pretty sure jet bridges were uncommon in those days.
I cracked a piece off the edge of one tooth, and had that problem until i got it repaired. Just in that one gap, but it drove me nuts.
The rest of my teeth remain too close to floss without a great deal of work, and pain both to the finger the floss is wrapped around and also the gum, when the floss finally snaps down.
Aside from the usual cats and dogs (currently 2 of each) I’ve also had pet ducks, lambs, goats, ferrets, and hermit crabs. Not all at the same time, because that would be weird.
Electric tootbrush, water pik and dental floss here. I have three crowns and an implant and my love of popcorn requires that I use all tools available. A water pik is not a substitute for either the toothbrush or the floss, but does a wonderful job of flushing tiny stuff out of the gums.
Planes. I remember boarding from the tarmac at Las Vegas in 1980, because I had a huge chocolate bar that I had won and it was beginning to melt in the heat. But I’ve also boarded from the tarmac at a lot of airports, sometimes due to small planes, sometimes due to jetway misbehavior. At Schiphol, this is frequent for regional jets.
Dog, cats, gerbil, and I’ve always wanted miniature goats. They are lovely creatures. But can’t have one in an apartment.
Re: the poll keeping the step-child too or not, if you didn’t watch the show but are curious what the character decided
it took Deacon on Nashville some soul searching, but ultimately he got custody of both girls, with the at first reluctant blessing of the younger girl’s imprisoned father
I used one instead of floss for a while. It didn’t with as well as the GUM picks, but my dentist said it was doing a decent job.
We had a very similar pet poll a few weeks ago.
I’ve had cats (don’t really like them), and parrots (interesting and fun), but rats are my pet of choice. I love them and have had 19 so far.
Not only do I keep both children, I do my damndest to be sure the one who isn’t my biological daughter knows I love her as completely as I do her sister. I’d also want to be sure we had some legal protections to be sure no one from the incarcerated parent’s side would try to take her away.
It took me a second to realize that wasn’t Alcoholics Anonymous.