The TSA agent shooed me through the employee line this time, and I escaped full body scans AND pat downs once again. I’m trying to figure out if my friendly personality is simply not a threat to U.S. security, or maybe people don’t want to see me naked due my recent weight gain.
Either way – I’ll take it.
I’ve flown through LAX numerous times, but I never remembered it being so dirty. There were construction remnants everywhere, and the airport looked like it was going to fall apart to pieces. I made a 20 minute walk through scary, empty hallways between two terminals to see one of my friends also flying out of the airport. You would think with an airport of this size, there would’ve been a tram or shuttle bus. No such luck.
If that weren’t weird enough, we headed off to find some airport food and every restaurant we went to seemed to be out of something. Starbucks had no strawberry smoothie mix, no naked juice, and Baja Fresh had… no CHIPS? For a Mexican restaurant, that’s pretty shocking.
The flight itself was packed again, and the plane looked like it was at least 20 years old. I was lucky enough to have a window seat this time, and was seated next to an older man who seemed friendly enough, so I struck up some conversation. Turns out, he married a Korean woman and had three kids (halfies – like me!) Ironically, he started talking about a recent career change – involving helping people (usually professional & older women) find love!
His story itself was unusual and something I’d never heard of. He told me he had an ‘arranged marriage’ with a Korean woman, orchestrated by a pastor of his church. He sent a picture over to Korea, and literally became engaged without knowing who this woman was. He later received a name, an age, later on a picture… and after a flight to Korea and a few years of engagement – barely knowing each other or understanding each others language – he was married in Madison Square Garden with thousands of couples under the same circumstances. He calls it radical, and although it was three decades ago – I think he’s right.
The secret to his 29 year success? He says that he was married for a higher purpose. I guess you can credit religion for that. He did tell me that the best way to find good single guys TODAY is in churches, or volunteering for a cause… So I guess that means I better up my volunteer & church hours! :)
He gave me a link to his blog, which is HERE. Definitely a different story, to say the least!
The rest of the flight was filled with fairly uninteresting ‘nothings’ that I’m sure nobody cares about. But if you really want to know, the Flight Attendants were rather old, and I encountered the first Flight Attendant I’ve met in my entire life that gave me a weird stare when I smiled at her. Twice.
Maybe my face looked funny or something…
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