So, I’m
flying Alaska Air from PDX down to LAX.
Kate had scored some seats in First Class for only about $50.00 over
coach (We’re flying a smaller plane than usual on the non-stop – an Embraer QX-E175 – but still quite nice).
I
have had an epiphany – for me, now, life is too short to NOT fly first class. Yes, in most cases, flying first class is a ridiculous
expense and should not be borne by most people – but for those of us who will, at most, be flying 10 or 12 times in the rest of our lives – fuck it! I have some what over $100,000.00 dollars of
what I can reasonably expend during this time on earth – I say fuck it – Fly
first class or not at all.
Note for
those of you younger than I. with much of your lives ahead of you, fly economy,
like I did, and make reasonable tradeoffs of expense vs. economy. And those of
you more constrained by fiscal realities, (I’m looking at you Dawn, and maybe
Jill) by all means fly economy. But I am driving my stake in the ground here and
now – I fly first class or not at all!
Note the
above may have been influenced by the two Tanqueray and Tonics provided on my
flight down, along with the snacks, lunch, and warm chocolate chip cookie
provided on my 1hour 45minute non-stop flight to LAX. But as god is my witness,
life is too short NOT to fly first class.
It’s now later in the evening after we have checked in at the Disney Grand Californian and after careful consideration – I emphatically re-affirm the above. For me, now, life is to valuable not to fly first class.
Now all of this assumes that life goes on about what it has been in the past. If Slow Joe and his merry band of bolsheviks manage to drive the country into a ditch so that only the nomenklatura fly commercial and the rest of us fly coach in old C-141’s with somewhat passenger-like seating (Done it, not recommended.) and 401K’s and IRA’s are seized in the name of EQUITY!, and we are paid in new-bucks, then of course all bets are off.