Insatiable Urge for Ginger Ale
This can only mean one thing, that’s right, I’m 30,000 feet above sea level on a flight going from Portland, Oregon to Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas. This, as all small things recently, got me thinking about why I have this craving for Ginger Ale. Stripped of Google for the next 2 hours since the only wireless network available (to the internet) is secured (thank God) I’m forced to sit here and ponder, “Why do I want a Ginger Ale right now?”.
At first I thought I’d be a little too embarresed to pull out my ten pounder Dell notebook remeniscent of the Ol’ Diamondback Sturgeons your Grandfather used to tell you about when you were just a tike. These three other guys sitting near me with their 4.5 pound IBM Thinkpads slowly two-finger typing out their schedules and reading their MS Outlook saved emails promising them their next big money making real estate scheme were a little intimidating at first. But once I slammed down my 6 kilos of pure gray matter on my fold out tray table (which just about broke it), I surfed into their networks one at a time to make sure they weren’t working on any national security white papers and felt at ease pulling up my desktop with an excellent background photo taken by my boss of a field of sunflowers in the summertime.
So, by now I’ve still got Ginger Ale on the mind. Why is it I always obsess over a Ginger Ale gracing my taste buds with it’s presence at 30,000 feet?
Some possibilities:
- The altitude may cause some kind of chemical reactions in my body that translate into some addictive chemical only found in Canada Dry’s concoction. (Damn Canadians…)
- An advertisement dating back to when I was a child growing up had a profound effect on me and thus branded all air travel nourishment with that of Ginger Ale.
- Some kind of wireless stimulous sent to my brain via some sort of contraption on board. This contraption is brought to us by Canada Dry via an agreement with someone very high up the corporate ladder at some kind of Standard Aircraft Construction Consortium (SACC). You heard it here first.
This high altitude has me thinking in all sorts of directions today.
October 30th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
Not even a shout out to O or Matthew? Where is the love? Well I am glad you made it home safe, and why are you drinking Canadian Soda? You are going to single handly going to destory the US soda industry, don’t you care about American jobs? However at least I could get the DR. Pepper uniform shirt I have so been longing for really cheap if the soda industry was to move to Canada, um… on second thought keep drinking Canada Dry, matter of fact go out and buy a 2 liter. (2 liter get it? Canda mertic system? Okay it was wack but I am at my office working on a Sunday night at 8:00 it is the best I can do.)
November 14th, 2005 at 11:52 am
that must of been a really long flight!