Standing By

Read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/standing-by

Since I've listened to Sedaris read some of his own books I can summon his notable voice and heard it in this article. I can't complain about Sedaris' complaints as I agree with them. I am also of the opinion that one should dress nicely while traveling. I am less bothered about waiting in an airport but understand the frustration and potential derailment. Sometimes a little acerbic for my taste, but still cathartic to experience.
This was a good set up:

When I asked another flight attendant, this one male, how he dealt with a plane full of belligerent passengers, he said, “Oh, we have our ways. The next time you're flying and it comes time to land, listen closely as we make our final pass down the aisle.”

“We've got to take our country back,” the man with the mustache said. “That's the long and short of it, and if votes won't do the trick then maybe we need to use force.”

What struck me with him, and with many of the conservatives I'd heard since the election, was his overblown, almost egocentric take on political outrage, his certainty that no one else had quite experienced it before. What, then, had I felt during the Bush-Cheney years?

“Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.”