Comments on: Tomato Juice, A Girl, & An Airplane

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:19:17 +0000

You remind me of my friend. When we flew to Acapulco, she was better but still did all these tricks to make her comfortable. On the way back, I thought she was going to rip off my hand because of the turbulence, no amount of wine could calm her down.

By: christina k

christina k — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Girl, I travel a lot, and while my belly flutters during takeoff and landing when I’m by myself, I am completely at peace when I’m next to my husband on a plane. I figure that if we go down, at least we’ll go together. Something about that calms me.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:00:41 +0000

I, too, hate flying. I take the Xanax approach and usually a few glasses of wine. I’ve also thrown in Benedryll and the occasion Tylenol PM- I swear I am not a drug addict. Once, a lady told me, after we landed, how peaceful I looked during the flight. I wanted to laugh and inform her I was passed out but I let that one go.

Every now and then my body, already feeling out of control, fights off the meds and booze and I sit there, white-knuckled, holding on and glaring out the window just waiting for something to go wrong.

I had a teammate in college, who I sat next to on a trip, tell me that she doesn’t like flying either but what gets her through it is thinking that the pilot wants to land that plane even more than we do.

I’ve found that I’m way worse on the way home because the excitement of whatever pending trip is now gone. I have some fairly good Flying Anxiety (Flyxiety, if you will) MP3s that I listen to that sometimes really help. I start listening to them about a week before a trip.

The good news is that you made it and had a great trip with your family!

By: Domestic Extraordinaire

Domestic Extraordinaire — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:38:10 +0000

I have only flown 4 times and it was with a small child each time. It wasn’t bad, but when said child was a bit crazy it made me a bit crazy as well. Not sure I could fly now, I really like to drive.

By: YC

YC — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:22:31 +0000

I agree with DianeS …i think the tomato juice is ripe for the picking on a plane. What else is perfect in that small little glass you get? And for some reason, you tend to sip on your drink in flight . Tomato juice is more sippable, than drinkable/chuggable/gulpable. And I think your taste buds tend to be a bit deadened in flight…i think the extra salt and complex vegetable flavors is something that may be “best experienced” at 30, 000 feet? It’s the perfect drink for flight…well, according to one’s mouth anyway!!!

I’ve never had the tomato juice offering but may contemplate it now. I try not to imbibe anything that might have to make me experience the commode vortex wenched in the 2 foot by 2 foot tango cube lined with black rubber circled flooring.