My wife and Airplanes

[fishaholic18]

My wife is scared to death of flying, and don't u know we leave Monday Morning for Arizona and the forecast is snow and windy..
This ought to be interesting.

[zacs]

TWO WORDS:

VAL-IUM

[tynan19]

Nips of Vodka in the Orange Juice.

[bud8fan]

Good Luck Dave!

Sounds like a job for all of the above..............................

[fishaholic18]

HMMMMMMM, Valium and Vodka.....
And no.....
Will make me....

[bud8fan]

Originally posted by fishaholic18
HMMMMMMM, Valium and Vodka.....
And no.....
Will make me....

V & V = and hopefully not


Enjoy the vacation dude!

[spinncognito]

Just don't give her the V&V too early. Your flight may get delayed and it may wear out before you take off!

[ThrowingTimber]

vica gin and tonic

[mrmacey]

these guys want to knock her out a nice converstion to reassure her might just be fine good luck .

[Nebe]

You know its not flying i'm scared of........

Its crashing



tell her theat she will be o.k. if there are bumps, but if the wingtips wiggle, your all going to die!!!!!!!!!

[Squid kids Dad]

I know her pain..I feel the same way..But if you want to travel you gotta do it..Just gotta have the faith and hold her hand the whole flight..

[fishaholic18]

Originally posted by Squid kids Dad
I know her pain..I feel the same way..But if you want to travel you gotta do it..Just gotta have the faith and hold her hand the whole flight..

Best advice yet. I will.

[Nebe]

Mrs eben is very affraid of flying and i have to do lots of hand holding.. she hates takeoff so right when we are powering up to take off I will start telling to her about something totally funny or something that makes her try to remember something.. this takes her mind off of the ball of fire at the end of the runway and she relaxes a bit..

[jugstah]

My son flies alone from Texas to Boston, with usually a stopover somewhere along the way, and he absolutely loves it. If he can do it, so can she.

Tell her to pretend it's a rollercoaster!

Heh..

[FishermanTim]

My brother is also afraid of flying.
I keep telling him that to think of it as a bus ride, and the bumps are just "dips in the road". If you don't look out the windows, you can actually feel thje similarity.
The take offs and landings are tougher to ignore, but if the person likes rollercoasters, that is quite similar.
Also, drinking may help, unless the person in question starts to loose it, then all bets are off.
Worse case scenario: imagine a fanatical drunk in an airplane?
(I haven't seen it, nor do I want to.)
Hopefully your calm reassurance will suffice. If not, mention that you did opt for the flight insurance because "you never know"!

I'm only kidding about the last part.
Simply bring an interesting book/magazine (On the water?), a walkman for inflight listening, and a few snacks (comfort food was named that for a reason.)

Good luck and enjoy your flight.

[RIJIMMY]

I hate flying, call her doctor, have them prescribe lorazapam (sp?). Its anti - anxiety. She'll be fine, totally awake, just not nervous. I have been taking it for years, fly all the time on business. You'd be suprised how many people take some sort of medicine before flying.