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>>>>Given my fear of flying over a major body of water, I rather doubt I'll ever be in NZ
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>>So that's your excuse for being a parochial Donald-voter? OK. ;-)
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>Very funny - you should know by now that I don't like Trump. :)
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>Seriously, except for a flight over the Gulf of Mexico to Cancun, I have never flown over an ocean and I don't intend to.
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>At rough guess, I've been on a little over 200 flights in my life, and have probably slept about 40-50% of the flight time. I don't read, I don't pull a laptop out - I just put on my headphones and fall asleep and irritate nearby passengers with my chainsaw-level snoring.
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>But if I had to fly over an ocean, I'd be scared to death.
This is why they call it a 'phobia' - irrational fear that is very unlikely to happen. I have a phobia of two beautiful young women wanting to have menage a trois with me. But deep inside I know that this is a very unlikely event. Just like it is in your case.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
