Airplane Info

I was cleaning out the computer desk drawer (Now that I've got a working gig, I have to keep a presentable computer desk for when my editor drops in check up on the direction the layout is headed for our magazine, and for the end of the month meeting with the printer!)

I found the same cute little note I always find when I sort this drawer. And, because I can't bear to part with it I tuck it back under the pen tray to smile about the next time I sort the drawer.

The note is written on an Chinese airline air sickness bag -- something we always have ready for Eliza our resident car sickness/airline sickness girly. The thing that we know about Eliza is that she has excellent aim, and remains beautifully composed before vomiting, which makes it far less unpleasant than with a child who panics, or doesn't get what's about to happen until after its too late. (Bea for example, shoves the bag away, gags, and somehow manages to cover herself and anyone in the vicinity... fortunately this happens very rarely with #3.)

Unfortunately, I failed to date the note. But, I'm guessing Eliza was about five when I transcribed her dictation about airplane info. The words on the airsickness bag are cute, they read:

Rules of Airplane Travel (as a five-year-old interprets the card):

For Blasting Off

No computers. No video cameras. No DVD. No computers. No cameras. No listening to music. No calling somebody. No toys and no smoking.

• Please put up your tray
  
• Please put your seat up
  
• and please put your tray (that you can slip out) back in your arm holder
  
• Please buckle your seat belt
  
• (and if you want to take off your seat belt look up and see if the seat belt sign is on or off. If its on... then you cannot take it off.)