Monday, October 8, 2007

Anton Weismann

Anton Weismann talked for just about 10 hours straight. He is the guy i sat next to on my flight to zurich. He talked because he likes to hear his voice, so I can tell. I didn't really say much over the course of the flight, just mostly nodded and smiled kind of like we do with girls, don't care what they are saying just them keep talking and they'll like you all the while. So first Anton broke into how American sucks. This is the third time this year an American flight has been delayed and he doesn't know why he continues to fly them. He says the airline needs to be nationalized like every other country. His favorite is the German Lufthansa; they really know how to treat you even if you are in the last row of steerage. He bashed bush for awhile, complaining about us being in Iraq and all that kind of stuff. But then he praised him for having balls and never backing down from his decisions and being ballsy, he was really focused on balls. Then he talked about Kiev and all the things he was going to do there, he was going to be there for two weeks visiting his family and possibly looking for a place to live. He's part Ukrainian, on his mother's side, he hails from north Dakota, went to UND where he was a starting forward on the fighting Sioux hockey team. He was never that good enough for the NHL so he focused on his studies. He was finance major and he has his MBA in finance. He worked for some French energy company can't remember the name. Now he works for Halliburton, so I wasn't too sure why he bashed bush so much. Halliburton is doing wonderful thanks to bush and Cheney. He speaks 11 languages so he says; I say he speaks a little bit of maybe 7. If you can speak a little Italian you can speak a little Spanish, if you can speak a little Russian you can speak in Eastern Europe that is my opinion. He talked about he started school in 1949 yadda yadda yadda, join the marines when he was 17, lost his virginity to a 31 yr old Jamaican whore in Jamaica. Yadda yadda yadda, lived on a boat the rest of his enlistment. Going to retire in Ukraine. During the 1st movie, Shrek III an message came on stating there was a medical situation and if anyone was a trained medical profession, he calmly stated that that Mexican woman over there is. Then a little bit later on the pilot came over asking if anyone spoke Turkish or Arabic. He stated ohh that guy over there can. So I don't know if he just pre-interviewed everyone before the trip or just talked to everyone on the plane. (He got up several times, it wasn't just a straight 600 minute conversation) he spoke with all the flight attendants and got lots of juicy details. Why we had to go back to the gate after initially pulling away. He told me which of the flight attendants were cool and which ones were bitches. The guy was the only cool one. He actually broke conversation to watch a 60 minutes documentary on the release of holocaust documents from the German archives. He didn't watch any of Shrek III but he watched a lot of the second movie, I don't know what it was, but it was about a girl's basketball coach in Oklahoma and how he took them to state title, I'm not sure what it was called but I saw it the first few times, hoosiers, glory road, coach carter, air bud. He thought it was cute. Then we got breakfast but it wasn't up to his liking, on Lufthansa you get an omelet and fresh fruit and coffee, yadda yadda yadda. On American we got a thing of yogurt, orange juice, and croissant with jam and jelly. It's a pretty kick ass continental breakfast if you ask me. He wasn't happy. As I scroll my eyes up I see I didn't talk about dinner, we had the choice of lasagna with a roll, Caesar salad, and lemon cookies or chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans. I had the former he had the latter, he complained of course because he had to pay for the red wine with dinner, he said it should be complimentary, he also didn't like that he didn't get a cognac after dinner. He would later go on a tangent comparing wine at dinner and after dinner coffee and cognac on par with sex. I have no such working knowledge of any of those things, so that was lost on me. And I guess that's about it for my seat partner, I don't know why I remember so much, this being my 4th day since I saw him, and I haven't gone gay for anton, I guess with nothing else to do for ten hours I just paid attention. So ill never see him again nor can I picture his face anymore, funny how something like that happens; the face thing.

The schick quarto is crap, stay with Gillette mach 3 turbo,

jacob

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