Susan over at Stony River usually does this, but she is MIA. Her last blog post, a month back, said something about an ice storm. Hope she’s okay.
Anyway, Grandma is doing this now (along with a few other people!). The rules are the same, she picks a photo and everyone writes 140 character story from it. This is the image:
This is my microfiction: Flight 23 is boarding. Nerves roiled in my belly. I wished for something to calm my stomach. Was anyone else nervous for their first flight?
Story Treasury 
I’ve flown many times in my life and don’t ever remember being nervous but my Grandmother flew for the first time in her 80’s and was plenty nervous before her first flight.
I don’t blame her!
Flying for the first time can be unnerving for sure 😉
Yeah, it can, and it’s always a pain.
I certainly can identify. For me, every flight is a white-knuckle one! I would have made a pathetic bird.
Yeah? Takeoff is the worst for me.
Some are nervous at their thirty first!
That’s a little amazing. You should be used to it after 30 flights!
Some people never get over their nerves do they?
Mine’s up.
I checked it out. I guess not!
Good one. This is something most folks can relate to. I still get nervous when I fly!
Me too.
That’s exactly how I felt as I took my first flight way back in 1968! Memories, memories!
I don’t remember my first flight, I think I was more excited than nervous. But I was nervous for every flight afterward.
I hate flying, but never minded the actual flight. Its all the other things: finding parking at a reasonable rate, long waits, luggage hassles, and cancelled flights are what I mind. Not to mention being told that my rental car has been “upgraded” from a mid-sized sedan to a van.
My Succinct: Tough Economy
I get a taxi to avoid the whole parking issue.
It can be at first – and I’m ex-Royal Air Force.
Yeah? That’s means my own nervousness during take off is normal.
That’s exactly how I feel when I fly!
Yes!
My first flight was as a new new recruit traveling from Michigan to Alabama for basic training in the military. I was so nervous, but it was about so much more than an airplane ride. 🙂 Had it not been for all the other factors, I probably would have been in fear of the flight. lol
A change like that is bound to anyone nervous!
Grandma’s advice is sound – take a sedative and sleep through it in the bottom of the bag..!
That would do it, yeah. But there is the danger of not being awake when you have to get off.
Is anyone else nervous before every flight?
🙂
I think if you fly enough, you get used to it.