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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:03 PM
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Great, degas..now that I'm engaged to your report...when is the next installment ?
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:07 PM
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Well, now I KNOW this is fantasy....

>>> having all the younger flight attendants flirt with me<<<

When's the last time you've been on an international DELT flight with a YOUNG flight attendant!?!?!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:08 PM
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Degas, you travel with such luscious delicacies to tickle and tantalize the palate! Dare I even attempt to entertain the thought of what it must be like to travel with you as LW is so privileged to enjoy! No . . . I would swoon from even considering the sheer pleasure of such a heavenly predicament.
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:08 PM
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Wow. Here I was all dolled up and ready to drive into town for a romantic dinner with my SO, but I think I'll just disrobe and sit by the computer.....
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:23 PM
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Geez Degas, you even have me hooked !
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:36 PM
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Okay, I'm sitting here at my computer having to fan myself with my "Mister Squirt Gun and Cool Water Mister" 'cause I'm all hot and bothered with anticipation, lol.
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:39 PM
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Welcome back, Degas. My wife is a big fan of yours, much to my display. She has fantasies about you in a green Speedo and brown Tom McCann's. She is putting away her Lexipro just to be able to have the focus to read the rest of your trip report.

I'll probably be sleeping with our pot-bellied pig tonight while she reads your report and dreams about braiding the hair on your back with her Vietnamese nails.....

Life is so unfair to the flatulent.

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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:40 PM
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Fox hunts in Florida? LOL!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:46 PM
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Definitely, fox hunts in Florida.

And gorgeous Argentinean polo players.

And, then REAL cowboys in the middle of the state - along with lots of cows.

It's not just MickeyLand and beaches!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:50 PM
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Thirty minutes from Rome, I awoke with a start and looked over to see my alluring LW snoring away in that precious, deep-throated roar that has forever driven bats, cats and other small animals away from our homes.

Try as I might I could not arouse her from a deep slumber. This was a great mystery as such a thing has never been a problem before, if you get my drift.

Ten minutes from touchdown - sweat now starting on the back of my bull-like neck.

Deciding to be a bit more forceful ( strong-willed fillies sometimes need such treatment), I gave her a rapid succession of severe slaps across the face, then gripped her swan-like shoulders and vigorous shook the living bajeesees out of her. All to no effect.

Five minutes from Rome - more sweat forming.

LW starts to moan and I lean close to hear that the wonderful little dunce has pulled a Lucy Ricardo. She could not sleep and took two sleeping pills 7 hours into the flight. What was she thinking? Maybe we were flying a prop job all the way to Oman!

Touch down

LW is toast - shear dead weight. So, I did what any loving husband would do in such a dire situation. I did not panic or whine like some soccer sissy. No, I did a quick firemen’s carry and lugged her out of the plane, using her million dollar legs and our two large carry-ons and assorted bags and purses to make a path through all those haughty business class snobs.

Then I beat feet straight for the Delt luggage office, dropped her on the counter, gave them our hotel info in Florence, slipped them a twenty Euro note and dashed off to the train station.

One can not waste time while on vacation. Keep up or get left behind.

Tough love is often the best love.
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 04:57 PM
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Wait- hold the phone, you mean to tell me there are other reports by this talentedly(is that a word?) hysterical Degas. I've only been here since this January. Quick, links someone, I need filler reading until he posts again!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:00 PM
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I cannot believe I am sitting here on a Saturday night waiting on Degas' trip report.

And he got me to come out of "lurking mode".

More please.
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:02 PM
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My pulse races, my breasts heave, I hang on every word . . . and yet here I am,

waiting,

again.

Please don't tarry, Degas! I don't know how much longer I will be able to bear this teetering on the very threshold of such promising climatic fullfilment.
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:05 PM
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All this heaving and he doesn't' even have you in the hotel room yet! That's where the pay off, er, comes.
 
Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:09 PM
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After he passed gas, I figured we better get this show on the road or we'd find our hero in the loo reading the newspaper from cover to cover!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:31 PM
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gracieb, while we wait, we don't you tell us more about those "gorgeous Argentinean polo players?" And where exactly can one find them while in Florida? ;-)
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:34 PM
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Ahhh... Degas...
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:34 PM
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A friend/ co-worker of mine dated one over a summer. Met on the polo fields outside of Bradenton. When I asked if he spoke English, the answer was "No, not really". When I asked if it mattered, the response was a BIG smile. Evidently not!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:37 PM
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Have you ever DRIVEN across the state from West Palm Beach to Tampa? You'd swear you were in Texas - straight out of the movie Giant. Nothing there but pastures, barbed wire fences and cows. I had been TOLD, but had no idea. Florida has one of the largest cattle industries of all the US states. Just get away from MickeyLand and the beaches and it's a whole different world!
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Old Jun 17th, 2006, 05:37 PM
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The Argentenian polo players aren't always what they're cracked up to be
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