There was this video footage of a biiiig Air France plane clipping a little plane on the runway. It was at JFK, I believe, and no one was hurt. My husband showed me this footage yesterday...several times. Then he talked about it for awhile (How cool it was, etc.) THEN he talked about it again LATER when we were watching "The Biggest Loser." I good-naturedly ribbed him about how his fascination with this must be some "guy thing." I swear, this was an interesting topic of conversation for approximately 15 seconds or so. But he thinks it is the coolest thing EVER. When I got to work today, my co-worker told me her husband did pretty much the same thing!!! Did this happen to anyone else? Did any of you ladies think it was as awesome as he did?
did not happen to me but some guys just like that kind of thing, it's like action movies, I love action movies cause well most of the time something blows up. and lots of things blowing up feed my ADD.
it's likely the same reason why they watch NASCAR, for the crashes. It's carnage guys like carnage.
I imagine they feel the same way about women when we prattle on about our girlfriends, reality tv, or whatever! lol
Because the Are France is 8 stories high and the small plane and the passengers are lucky to be alive.
It was a moment to stop and imagine what could have happened. Especially of you fly a lot Or your family flies a lot.. Our daughter is in college and it really shook us up imagining her on that smaller plane.
The footage was pretty remarkable.
LMAO.... guys are weird. My guy made me watch clips of some old 70's show like a million times last night. He thought it was so awesome; I thought it was super cheesey and poorly acted ;) Same thing with fishing... my fiance will come back from fishing for an hour, and be able to talk about it for 4 hours. It's FISHING... mostly waiting for a fish to bite, how is that exciting?! Why would I want to hear about that for more than 5 minutes?! It should go like this: ME 'How was fishing?', HIM 'Good', ME 'Did you catch anything?' HIM 'Yep, 2 nice sized bass', ME 'good job honey'... DONE.
BUT, on the flip side, just about every time I come back from the grocery store, he has to hear the break down of my receipt, which coupons I used, what was on sale, and how much I saved, LOL! ;)
I would say that it is just one of those wonderful qualities that testosterone gives to men and boys. I think they just get a little boost of adrenaline when stuff like that happens. I have two boys and it is just so fun to watch them play. I think I can deal with that ten times easier then the catty insecurities from women.
First of all, my condolences to you Michelle, and your friend's family, for the loss of your friend. You make a really good point about how they have to re-live that with every newscast.
My husband also talked about it all day and yes showed me the footage too.
I work in the industry, so it didn't interest me that much, except...to take the opportunity to tell everyone to PLEASE KEEP YOUR SEATBELTS FASTENED! So many times on landing people unbuckle and try to collect their things...or worse, let their kids take off the seatbelt.
Sorry to be on the soapbox : ( I'm just really happy no one was hurt...
Because it's like an action movie but REAL!
Well, my 5 yr old son is enthralled with all things transportation. Anything with wings, wheels, or a motor. The only thing cooler than those things is crashing those things. I'm sure he will grow out of it by adulthood - mostly! But that little boy in him will always love to see stuff crash.
I agree with Laurie A. Personally, I don't understand what the fascination is at all. As a teenager, a friend of mine was killed when a jumbo jet landed on the commuter jet she was on and killed everyone on board. When I heard this story, my first thought was for her parents who were not on the plane and are still living. While all of us who are mature enough to put aside the "cool" factor and reflect, as Laurie said, on the "what if's", that poor girl's parents sit in their home and are now reliving their loss with every news broadcast. Their family was not one of the lucky ones, and every overheard conversation in the grocery story or pharmacy punctuated with the "How awesome!" or "So cool!" comments must be like a knife to the heart. It wasn't a movie. Those were real people, with families, on board. I'm sure they didn't find it "cool" at all.
Do you have boys? I think this is all part of the Y chromosome package deal.
And because no one got hurt it was "Aw how cool". Had the outcome been dofferent they are not so cavalier.
I thought it was pretty funny myself, but I know what you mean. Men find the strangest things fascinating and will just live it and talk about it repeatedly until you want to shoot them!! I don't know why they think every event is something we need to relive 5-10 times in order to enjoy the situation.
But I will say- when you see the size of that HUGE plane clip that tiny (but in reality not so tiny) plane- it is worth a second look... but that's about it!
Because it is like a train wreck or any other "footage"... you just can't stop looking at it and thinking "Oh my god... I can't believe I just saw that happen". Think about how many times we have seen the 9/11 footage run- and my guess is that you still stop and watch it when it's on t.v.
I overheard some older guy discussing it with the Pharmacist at the grocery store yesterday morning!!
Weird!
(My hubby didn't even mention it... he is an air traffic controller - en route, not a tower or ground controller--- so it held NO interest for him.)
