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Posted by tafkap on November 30th 2006 in Religion, Society, Technology, Thoughts, Travel
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I flew to Chicago over Thanksgiving for a wedding. Yeah - perfect timing. I don’t consider myself to be a person with too many prejudices, but I was surprised by thoughts that went through my mind as I observed people at the gate and on the flight on my way back to Boston.

A middle aged woman. Friendly. Reading an article. It was entitled something like “Why I am against prayer at games - an Evangelist’s story”. Must be from Kansas or something. Probably hates Boston.

An elderly African American couple. Flying to Atlanta so they said. The man had a newspaper in his hand and he was doing a crossword. I am irrationally surprised.

On the flight. A guy in his thirties. Fit. Good looking. Wearing some kind of high tech North Face jacket. Reading a book on Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics. Obviously a Boston resident. Wonder what he thinks of the mid-west.

Another guy in his thirties. Fit. Has 3 magazines - Wired, Economist, GQ. A nerd after my own heart. Has a Nintendo DS with four games I think. I wish I had the time to play video games. Keeps moving from magazine to magazine and game to game every 15-20 minutes. Looks like he’s playing wirelessly with his traveling companion who has a DS too. These guys really ought to get themselves girlfriends. I eventually see that his companion is a girl.

South Asian guy. Stubble. Nerdy looking. Reading a book entitled ‘Just and Unjust Wars’. Must be a terrorist.

Well the last guy is actually me. Needless to say, I tried real hard to conceal the book’s cover from curious eyes.