AirUppie

Good evening to you all. As some of you might have noticed I have not been around for a week or so.. I have spent the last six days at the Youth and Opens swim meet in Christchurch which is an hour and forty minutes away by plane... It was an enjoyable week of no cooking, cleaning or children or wife... The Meet is for the top youth and Olympic level swimmers.. so lots of good swimming and good bodies in skimpy swim suits... the meet has and early moring session of two hours and an evening session of two to three hours... the rest of the day is free for drinking and gambling... both of which I indulged in to a greater or lesser degree.. oh yea I also did alot of running as I have a mrathon to run on the 28th of this month.... we stayed at St Bebes College which is a catholic highschool for boys... also staying in the same wing as us was a group of athetics kids 12 to 13... sixty of them half girls half boys... this made the ablution block which is unisex rather interesting... our group of four adults showered between 6 and 7 in the morning then the girls moved in and then the boys.... I was shaving at 6.30 one morning and two girls came in... they had no concerns at my presence but inquired as to if there were any boys in there... god dam I'm that old that young girls do not regard me as a threat... sigh...

My fellow travellers are aged, overweight and snore alot... another .. sigh... the only other thing of interest that happened was on the flight home....

pilot... "scuse me passengers but we have a noisy door"

me..... well did you not shut the fucking thing properly...

pilot... "it's not a problem we think the door seal has pinched on closing and we are going to descend to see if the noise reduces...

me.... yea right... you are worried that the door might be falling off and you are descending so we do not have explosive decompression if it exits the aircraft...

pilot... "the door is still noisy and we are going to divert to Wellington'

me.... "fuck we are in the shit"

we then started descending rapidly and we came in so hard and fast we bounced when we hit the tarmac.. for a nervous flier like myself this was rather discombobulating... however we spent half an hour on the ground and then were cleared to continue our journey...

so you still have me to contend with.... snicker snicker