A quote from 'Fight Club'...

rjmore said:
You want to feel really weird. Come home from a trip and have the wife go for an international visit. It's been almost two weeks and it is strange being the one left alone at home.
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Yeah that is a weird feeling! My wife occasionally travels for work and when I am home alone it is a strange feeling.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Yup! That's where they put me up the first night when I got based in MQT.

Odd night. A bunch of other pilots showed up expecting to share my room too.

"Hey man, there's six of us, we'll use your room tonight, then if the rest of us sign in a day later, we'll have a week of hotel rooms".

"Get out."
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Believe it or not, I actually miss MQT. Not the awesome "hotels", but the quiet and nice long trails. On second thought, I don't miss the 2am wake up call the snowmobile thought I needed or get to the bar for pizza or wait until the dollar store opens. It was nice up there, though. It was odd looking for my uniform in what looked like a bedroom right out of my great-grandma's house.
 
MQAAord said:
We used to stay at a Holiday Inn in MQT that had a mirrored wall right next to the bed. I wake up in the night, want to head for the sink to get a drink of water. In my bleary stooper I get out of bed and walk face-first into the mirror... I learned then to open my eyes and be somewhat alert before actually getting out of bed.
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Heh. One of the hotels we stay in has mirrors on the closet doors. I left it open when I went to bed. Got up in the middle of the night, and I ALMOST walked into it. I was awake enough to process the fact that I was staring at someone in the middle of the night, in the dark, in my hotel room. I was NOT awake enough to process the fact that it was my own reflection in a mirror. It's a wonder I didn't shatter the damn thing.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Yup! That's where they put me up the first night when I got based in MQT.

Odd night. A bunch of other pilots showed up expecting to share my room too.

"Hey man, there's six of us, we'll use your room tonight, then if the rest of us sign in a day later, we'll have a week of hotel rooms".

"Get out."
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Oh DOUG act like you would not want to cuddle with six others!!! :)
 
Interesting additions, all. Just to be clear, I like my life. I just was curious if everybody else felt this way- it's odd to be out of sync with the rest of the world...

One must agree that it's fun to NOT be a part of the traditional 'rat race'.

It's easier to point and laugh that way :D
 
I just hate how I never seem to guess correctly which way I'm supposed to turn out of my room to get to the elevator. I always seem to end up at a wall, with an exasperated son-of-a-bitch!
 
I sometimes wake up in a panic thinking that I slept through my alarm and I'm late for my show time. Then I realize I'm at home and I'm off.
 
Freight can be similar, yet not at all. I don't have a home. I have a crashpad in a strange city and a hotel room in another strange city. I've been doing this for 6 months. All of my belongings are in a storage shed hundreds of miles away. When I wake up, I try to remember which end I'm on and what I'm supposed to do next. I don't run in to walls, but I'm a stranger everywhere I go. Honestly, I think I'd trade with you.

Postmodern alienation seems kind of romantic until you live it. Eventually it becomes more the sort of thing that breeds serial killers...

Sooooo...what to do with this crash axe... :)
 
I've done that too. The other day I left the TV on in my room and all the sudden I snap awake and in my mind I'm back to my days at Mesa, and I know that crew stalking just called me to get a trip and I have to run to the airport (I lived really close and sat ready reserve from home, but I still had to rush.) It took me a while to realize 1) I havent worked there for a while and 2) why I thought that--on TV I heard a sound that I set as my ringtone for Mesa.
 
CirrusMonkey said:
Couldnt resist:

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler
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Dude that's awesome :beer:
 
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