Oct 08 2002
Q&A
An informal survey of Southern friends reveals that grape is the preferred flavor of jelly for egg or sausage McMuffins. None of them even questioned the jelly’s presence. So it must be a regional delicacy. But jelly with cheese just seems so wrong. Like fish on pizza.
Beth flew in on Delta, and had both a bumpy flight and landing. This seems to be so common when flying on Delta that I just have to wonder. Did they miss the smooth flight and landing class most pilots seem to have taken, like how I must have missed the girl class in how to keep my bra straps up (they are forever slipping)? Or are they doing it on purpose, for some unknown reason? Enquiring minds want to know, and I for one am not planning to take Delta anywhere ever. Flying is scary enough as it is, thank you.
One mystery I think I have solved is all those October birthdays. I know 12 people with birthdays in October, more than any other month of the year. I have come to the conclusion that it’s all those New Year’s parties: drunk, happy people throwing inhibition and birth control to the winds, resulting in a harvest of October babies!
4 Responses to “Q&A”
by Jelly you mean Jam right?
Wouldn’t new years parties result in more September births than October?
Yeah, jelly is American for jam. My English grandfather always used to laugh when I said “jelly doughnuts” (for you non-UK folks, the joke here is that jelly is Jell-O in the UK, and a doughnut filled with Jell-O is possibly more disgusting than grape jam/jelly on a McMuffin).
But New Year’s Day is technically January, so wouldn’t that mean 9 months later would be October? Or did I just prove once again how very math-challenged I am (and how blissfully ignorant of matters gynecological)?
It must have been a man that started this 9 month myth because women are pregnant closer to 10 mths so October it would be! I seriously don’t know why I know that. Scary.
I know at least 5 people born in October too!! As birthday months go, it’s not a bad time to have a birthday. At least it’s not dead of winter (like mine is!).
I’ve always flown Delta, because Delta is really the only airline that flies out of Melbourne, and Atlanta Hartsfield is its hub, so when I lived in Atlanta and flew to Melbourne, it was just the thing to do. I’ve never had any problems, but then again, it’s been so long since I’ve flown on any other airline that I’m probably jarred around without even knowing it.