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May 23, 2009
There Must Be Others
I was in Dallas for meetings a couple of days this week and on the return flight, I had a layover of about an hour in Denver. Following the required bathroom break, checking email and voicemails and grabbing a snack, we started to board for the final leg into Salt Lake City.
Directly in front of me in line was a hip looking, 20 something man with longish hair, all the standard Apple appliances, nice jacket over jeans, pointed leather loafers, the works. He happened to be carrying a copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I thought, pretty cool, but then wondered what his motivation was. Was he reading it because of the tea-party movement and how that particular novel is getting so much attention and just wasnt to see what was getting everybody so uptight? I had no idea, really, and let it go as we stepped from the jetway onto the plane.
As the line slowly moved through the first class section, one of the flight attendants, a young, hip, stylish woman in her own right, was standing in the gap between first and coach and reached out and caught this man's arm. She said, " I'm currently reading The Fountainhead" and added "Good Luck." The young man nodded and said "this is my second time reading this," and ended with "Good Luck to us all."
It had been a long travel day and up to that point, I had been tired and grumpy. The screaming toddler in the boarding area who was about to get on the same plane I was on didn't help matters much, but what should I expect. I have yet to be on a flight into or out of Salt Lake that didn't have a screaming baby on it and I guess I should have been thankful it was only one.
Catching a glimpse of that somewhat private conversation between 2 members of a generation one tier down from my own, however, really lifted my spirits. "There is hope", I thought to myself as I finally got to 19A, secured my laptop bag and settled in for the flight. If there are two here on the same plane, there must be others.
Posted by Jonathan at May 23, 2009 8:05 AM
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