The Lighter Side: First-Time Flyer Pain

Flying through the Midwest in the summertime means one thing: turbulence. I was working as a flight attendant on one particular flight when we hit a patch of very rough air just after a young teenager, obviously on her first flight, had entered the bathroom.

After the bumps had subsided, she exited the bathroom with a look of sheer terror etched on her face.

"Are you all right?" I asked, as I helped her to her seat. "That turbulence was as bad as it gets."

"So that's what it was," she said. "I thought I'd pushed the wrong button."

Contributed by Lavonne McDonald. Provided by Reader's Digest.

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