Monday, July 09, 2007
Daily Dude I Want to Hit: Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Nickname: Dreamliner
DOB: 2006?
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Current Residence: soon to be the friendly skies
Why I Want to Hit that Hotness: I fly enough to find the entire experience annoying, expensive, time-consuming, and uncomfortable. Supposedly this plane is going to fix all that, since it's lighter, faster, and ALLEGEDLY more comfortable than all the other planes currently in use, and that to me is very hot. That way, when I'm stuck next to some old woman who wants to tell me about every destination to which she's ever flown and her reasons for doing so, I'll at least have to endure it for less time and less money, and will feel more physically at ease. That last part is important, because on several occasions when I've gotten so annoyed with the person in my neighboring seat I have to actively remind myself that I don't want to get taken down by an air marshal and prolong a miserable flight experience in order to keep from popping the irritatingly talkative neighbor right in the kisser.
However, I also have to give props to the 787 because Boeing used to be the only thing Seattle was famous for. Before Microsoft or Starbucks or even the Space Needle, Seattle had Boeing. When I was growing up, my uncle was a Boeing machinist (his CB handle was "Toolmaker") and our family was very pro-Boeing, because the economy of our little slice of the P-N-Dub was so dependent upon it. Whenever Boeing had hard times, everybody had hard times. Even though Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago a few years back, Boeing is still a major employer in the P-N-Dub, and they had the decency to acknowledge their roots and roll out the old Dreamliner in Everett. Everett is like the Tacoma of the north, full of drunks, whores, military personnel, and assorted other scruffy ne'er-do-wells, so I approve of this as a launching ground wholeheartedly.
Labels: capitalism, Daily Dude I Want to Hit, P-N-Dub
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