A flight for lightweights: What Americans are afraid of

I am terrified to fly. Every time a plane hits a bump, I need to close my eyes and think happy thoughts. Because of that, airports seemed like a perfect place to talk to people about their fears.

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I wrote a message to my 16-year-old son: "In your generation, this will be commonplace. But for me this is the first message that I am sending while cruising at 30,000ft. It records a moment in my lifetime." I pressed send and surprise: It showed a double tick and finally two blue ticks. I got a thumbs-up in response.

Toying with the paltry bandwidth provided for free by an international airline brought forth a child-like excitement in me. For doing anything substantial with the WiFi on board the aircraft, of course, I would have to migrate to the paid plan.

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