We crossed the country again this week, thank you Air Canada for a smooth and uneventful trip. A couple of people commented when we said we were travelling on 9/11, numbers which can't seem to be used together anymore without a small ripple of reaction. Except I'm pretty oblivious to most superstitions and actually think 13 is a darned good number. It used to be a number of magic and power till it was co-opted, or is that corrupted, by the Christians. But I digress. Who me?
The thing is, on the western leg of the trip there were 2 vacant seats on an average big plane. But on the second huge plane there were about 50 people out of 350 seats, and on the last teensy flight there were 5 people out of 18 seats. Are people afraid to invoke bad luck by travelling on 9/11? Are we less sensitive in the west, or less worried? Or do we travel more? Just wondering, 'cuz it was kind of weird.
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Hate to be Mister Pragmatic, but maybe we don't have as many options? There are fewer cities out here, and further apart, so perhaps fewer flight options?
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to fly on 9/11, at all. Not because of superstition but just because that's a day that might have slightly higher chance than all other days of being re-targeted for violence. Not a high chance -- just infinitesimally slightly more.
Maybe? Or is that just superstition in another pair of pants?
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