“If you live within 40 miles of the airport, you know how an MD-80 sounds.” The MD-80 series was sometimes called the “Mullet Plane,” with its “business in the front” whisper quiet front part of the cabin and loud “party in the back of the plane” from the twin rear ...
As grandparents have been saying for generations, kids would travel miles to school in the countryside (often on foot). "You had kids in rural areas who couldn't go home from school [for lunch] because it's just too hard to get back and forth, so bringing your lunch wrapped in a ...
no matter how I felt about life, or running, I got up, dressed for a run, and headed out. What was once a choice became a reflex. That’s what got me through those 26.2 miles.