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Being on an eleven hour long flight is no fun. That is what it takes to get from Frankfurt to San Francisco,though. It is the distance between high school and university. Shared family life and roommates you have, yet, to meet. Long flights also make you melodramatic.
On the other hand there are things that characterize an unbearably long flight:
For days and days beforehand you nearly don’t sleep, going back and forth between agonizing over still not having packed anything and agonizing over the details not, yet, hammered out concerning your arrival to, and stay at, wherever it is you have to endure an eleven hour flight to get to.
Going to the airport pretty much reduces you to an overly excited chihuahua.
‘Where did you end up putting the humungous pile of paperwork again?’ is a frequent question.
Your eyes unwittingly follow every interesting person passing you.
In the plane, the clothes you put on for comfort and the ability to look splendid after The Airplane Nightmare, get soaked with coffee. Courtesy of your French neighbor in seating who was absorbed in the very animating process of solving their 78th crossword puzzle.
The coffee is hot and it hurts on top of making you feel obese and embarrassed for having to jostle at least ten people to dig a packet of tissues out of your rucksack.
Oppressively small places - read: intercontinental economy-class flights - suck.
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