Another Day In Paradise

I have just returned today from a 48 hour stop-over in Cuba. Now its not a place I go to very often, in fact since my airline started flying there I have only been scheduled three times.

The route from the airport to the hotel goes through some very run down neighbourhoods. The sort of places when you are stuck at traffic lights kids come up to the window of your car begging for money. These kids have no shoes on their feet and no shirts on their back, these kids come from real poverty.

On the way back to the airport yesterday afternoon I stopped at a set of lights in one of these neighbourhoods. This little boy of about 4 or 5 years old comes and knocks on my window, he holds his hands out and just looks at me. Tourists are advised to not give money to these kids because the kids give it to parents who use it as drug money, but I am a real sucker and find it impossible to resist, so i wound my window down and gave him the eqivalant of about £5.

I drove off knowing full well what he would do with it but there is always that chance that his parents may use it for food. It makes me realise how lucky we all are to live in a civilised country, sure we all complain about prices and the weather and high taxes, but you what, we really do live in paradise!!!

MUST READ

The new Suzanne Portnoy book is out `The Not So Invisible Woman`. Get to your local bookstore or on Amazon and get this book, it is fantastic and I say that as a bloke. Also get Suzanne's first book ` The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker` if you have not already read it. They are quite brilliant books.

Hotel Porn

I stay in hotels all over the world and I do sometimes check out the hotel t.v and its porn offerings. Now In America they show hardcore but never the cum shot.....never understood this theory. They show anal, group sex, blowjobs, the lot but apparently the hotels of America think that showing spunk shots is immoral and corruptable?????

In England they show 18 rated videos. The stuff you could go and buy in HMV.

In Asia, most hotels don't show porn, well I say that, what they mostly show is badly filmed Japanese porn which manly consists of a guy walking along a street filming fast 2 second shots up an unsuspecting girls dress. Maybe this gets the Japanese going, doesn't do anything for me.

In Austraila they show hardcore porn in hotels but they use those distorted boxes over the offending parts!!!

Now you might ask why a 28 year old pilot on night stop-overs in some of the most amazing locations in the world would spend his time studying the differentials in hotel tv porn. Well the answer is simple, I have flown to every destination that my company flies to about 50 times over, some more than that, so hotel porn is often all I can be bothered with.
I just wish hotel owners would stop assuming that I am corruptable and should not be shown this stuff. In answer to that, I was corrupted a long time ago.

Whoever said pilots lead a glamorous life??