{"id":555,"date":"2009-09-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-09-24T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T08:00:00","slug":"boots-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Boots in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">This post is about some amusing things I heard at my home airport in Maryland, aboard my flight, and after arrival yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, where I am leading a major event for my work.<\/p>\n<p>I traveled comfortably, in a pair of Wranglers and Nocona Rattlesnake cowboy boots.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<p><u>Arriving at the airport whilst checking in<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Airline agent inquired]:  Do you have luggage to check?  Why?<br \/>&#8212; <i>because I can&#8217;t travel without at least one change of boots each day for the five days I will be there. <\/i>  [I think she actually believed me, but I couldn&#8217;t tell]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[a guy taking off his wing-tipped dress shoes in front of me asked]:  Do you have to take your boots off to go through security like I do?<br \/>&#8212;<i>No; I enjoy being wanded, frisked, and delayed<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[kid with Mom]  Mommy, what are those things on his feet?<br \/>Honey, those are boots<br \/>Mommy, where&#8217;s he going?<br \/>I don&#8217;t know<br \/>Do you think he is going to ride a horse?<br \/>I don&#8217;t know<br \/>Mister, [looking at my boots then at me]  Are you going to ride a horse in Texas?<br \/><i>Kid, thanks for noticing the boots.  No, I&#8217;m going to ride a horse in Arizona.<\/i><br \/>Oh!  Wow!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Aboard the plane<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Flight attendant said:]  Nice cowboy boots!<br \/><i>Why thank ya&#8217;, ma&#8217;am!<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[Woman on aisle seat in my row exclaimed:]  Those are some boots!<br \/><i>No, there are only two<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[Sneaker-wearing guy waiting for the toilet asked:]  Don&#8217;t those things (pointing to my boots) get hot?<br \/><i>No, but they <u>look<\/u> hot!<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Upon arrival in Phoenix<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Good looking young guy who sees me at baggage claim says:]  Man, those a really cool boots!  I&#8217;ve always wanted a pair of boots like that.  Where did you get them?  <i>I got them from a cousin who owned a boot store in Oklahoma.  I have seen them on-line for a decent price at bootbarn.com.<\/i>  [He smiles and says that he will get himself a pair.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome to Arizona!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about some amusing things I heard at my home airport in Maryland, aboard my flight, and after arrival yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, where I am leading a major event for my work. I traveled comfortably, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airport-security","category-best-friends","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}