THE MILE HIGH CLUB
".....we'll be cruising at an altitude of 33,000 feet with and air speed of 480 knots, the weather is clear and we should reach Houston right on time, and thank you for flying World Air!!!" After Emma Burton had stared out the window at the fading lights of Seattle's skyline, she ordered a Bloody Mary from the hostess and buried her nose in the new novel she had purchased at the airport news stand, and while she was just about getting into the plot when she was interrupted by her young seat mate, a college age boy sitting just to her right!!! "First flight," he asked!?! "Uh, no," she replied, "my grandchildren live with my son and his wife in Houston so I fly down a couple of times a year, I usually take the night flight because it's a little cheaper, what about you!?!" "Oh, I go to school in Seattle," he offered cheerfully, "but I'm a native Texan returning home to be in my buddy's wedding!!!" She was about to go back to her reading, when the youn... MORE
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