On Thursday I board a plane for Orlando, FL for IZEAFest 2009. As this trip draws near I’ve been doing some deep thinking about how I want to pack for this trip. Do I want to check baggage? No. Then I guess I’m carry on. But I don’t want to carry on. Back and forth, back and forth. And then today, as I’m pondering carrying on a hiking backpack (one small enough to fit in the overhead compartment but big enough to hold my stuff); I have this thought…
If the plane were to crash, it’d be good to know my stuff (diabetes supplies) was in the overhead bin as opposed to the cargo hold (which I thought about putting all my stuff in there and only carrying on less than a backpack). Because then it’d be able to get to, no worries, unless the bin opened and it flew out…This is where we get the image from LOST, they crash, and most of their stuff is on land and they’re able to salvage it.
But then, I get an image from one of my favorite books from back when I was in 5th grade (and I still read it probably once every 5 years or so). Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. The story of a boy who has to survive when his plane crashes in a lake. Now this is where I started thinking that it didn’t matter where my luggage was because if I crashed into some body of water the majority of it would be rendered useless.
And so I start thinking (I do this often)…do I need to put my supplies in a water proof container? would that be wise? No, cause the plane isn’t going to crash. But what if it does crash and what if it crashes in water? Then you’ll be more worried about using your seat cushion as a flotation device (which you’ve often questioned) than you would be worried about your backpack with your supplies in it. But the container would float. But your laptop would sink the backpack. Well, I’m not going to crash anyways. Then why are we having this conversation…That’s an excellent question.
Yeah, I talk to myself…what can I say…and it usually involves some kind of imagery from some book or movie or tv show that I’ve seen…it makes life interesting…
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An even more unpleasant scenario would be Alive – crashing in the snowy mountains, the insulin would freeze, you’d die. and then your plane mates would cut you into steaks.
All of those options suck though, so let’s just stick with the plan to not crash
I’m not familiar with that setting…but, i think, i like that scenario the least…I’ll stick to crashing in the water and fighting with the seat cushion…
DUDE!! I read that same book in 4th or 5th grade! That’s so weird because there was a movie based off the book and I was just poking around Netflix to see if they had it the other day.
Awesome book.