“Have a safe flight!”
-Elizabeth
 

She says it every time I travel. Lots of peolpe do. It’s kind of just… what’s said. Like people saying “How’s it going.” as a sort of greeting without it really being an actual inquiry into how your day or life is going. It’s something that’s said to say hello, and that some degree of “oh, you exist” level of polite care or consideration is there. And in this case quite a bit more.

So, when my wife says sputters something about safe travels, I smile and resist the urge to tell her that there’s really nothing I can do about it. Smooth or fiery-death flight alike, I can’t particularly control that. Sure, I won’t run down the aisle with scissors or take up doing hardcore drugs with dirty needles in the coffin of a bathroom. All I can really do is sit, buckle up, return the tray and seat to their upright positions and leave the rest to the pilot and the fates.

But I still like that she says it. And so, I set the scissors aside for yet another trip.

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