Flying Snob Report I returned home to Chicago, Ma…
Saturday, 21 June 2003 by Jacob TomawFlying Snob Report
I returned home to Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley, yesterday. While I was standing in line to print my boarding pass I recognized a face in line behind me. It was a U.S. Senator, but I could not recall his name. I was sure it was Democrat because I was sure that I usually change the channel when he is on the TV. When I returned home I looked him up and he is Sen. Byron Dorgan (D- ND). He was traveling with his prototypical political family, a lovely wife and two pre-teen children, one boy and one girl. From studying the people around him and who interacted with him, I think that I may have been the only person that recognized Sen. Dorgan. It made me a little sad. I imagine that Pres. Bush may be the only person in the Federal government that could not travel unnoticed if you removed the people that travel with them. People would probably recognize Vice Pres. Cheney, Sec. Rumsfeld, or Sec. Powell but not enough to cause any trouble for them.
As we progressed through security, which took some time because Dulles was very busy on the rainy day, I continued to keep an eye on the Senator. I was pleased to see that no short cuts were taken for him. He had to travel like any other American. Sen. Dorgan did not check his bag, you know how I feel about that, and he must have had nail clippers, a fork, or some other dangerous weapon in his luggage because it was searched and something was seized.
We both boarded the same ?people mover? to go to Terminal C. They went left and I went right. Taking all this information into account I believe that they were taking United Flight 1065 to Denver International Airport and then United 6810 to Bismarck Municipal Airport.
I had the joy of traveling with a Girl Scout Troop from Charlottesville, VA on my flight. Although they did a lot of talking during the flight it was not clear where their final destination was. They talked about future flight to and from Seattle, San Antonio, and Mexico. I learned two things while traveling with them. First, this flight was a first for one of them. She nearly hyperventilated during the take off. One of the other girls comforted her that it was an unusually rough take off, but I thought the take off was very mild. What was reaffirmed for me is that the key to a pleasant flight and a whole lot of other things in life is to just embrace that there is a lot of things going on that you do not know and no matter what you do nothing will change it. Second, Sears Tower is the big black thing by the lake.
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