First Date

[Jay Honeck]

This morning, while working out together, my 15 year old son asked (out of
the clear blue sky) if he can take a friend flying next week.

Absentmindedly, I reply "Sure -- what's the guys name?" -- to which my son
replied "Anna..."

Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying -- how's
THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)

Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
date?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[john smith]

> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> date?

Intercom on pilot/crew isolate?

[Tri-Pacer]

> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying --
> how's THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>
>

At 15, you'd better start him on flight instruction.

I was taking my girl friends on flying dates at 17 without my Dad. <G>

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A

[Dave]

And joined the 1/2 mile high club?
(snicker)

"Tri-Pacer" > wrote in message
...
>> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying --
>> how's THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>>
>>
>
> At 15, you'd better start him on flight instruction.
>
> I was taking my girl friends on flying dates at 17 without my Dad. <G>
>
> Cheers:
>
> Paul
> N1431A
>
>

[Arnold Sten]

Jay Honeck wrote:
> This morning, while working out together, my 15 year old son asked (out of
> the clear blue sky) if he can take a friend flying next week.
>
> Absentmindedly, I reply "Sure -- what's the guys name?" -- to which my son
> replied "Anna..."
>
> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying -- how's
> THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>
> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> date?
If I found myself in that situation (my kids are 27 and 24) I'd be
certain to call the girls parents just to make sure that they are O.K.
with the idea of their daughter going up in "one of those little planes."
I would not tell that there is no rear view mirror to watch for any
"extra-aviation" activity in the back seat. <wink> Just my $0.02 worth.
Arnold Sten

[Jay Honeck]

>> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
>> date?

> If I found myself in that situation (my kids are 27 and 24) I'd be certain
> to call the girls parents just to make sure that they are O.K. with the
> idea of their daughter going up in "one of those little planes."

Hmmm. I had not considered that. Probably a good idea, but that will
REALLY convince my son how "uncool" we are...

;-)

(As if he needed further reinforcement!)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[BTIZ]

hey... smart kid... "if your going to hang with me.. then you have to
understand that flying comes first.."
gets the point across

BT

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:x3gUe.319512$_o.69656@attbi_s71...
> This morning, while working out together, my 15 year old son asked (out of
> the clear blue sky) if he can take a friend flying next week.
>
> Absentmindedly, I reply "Sure -- what's the guys name?" -- to which my son
> replied "Anna..."
>
> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying --
> how's THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>
> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> date?
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>

[tony roberts]

Well - as I read that Jay - he didn't invite you along!
And, it seems to me, that choosing between the plane actually lifting
off with Dad at the controls, or, sitting in the hangar with dad nowhere
in sight, he is looking for option #2.

Just a thought :)

Tony
C-GICE

In article <x3gUe.319512$_o.69656@attbi_s71>,
"Jay Honeck" > wrote:

> This morning, while working out together, my 15 year old son asked (out of
> the clear blue sky) if he can take a friend flying next week.
>
> Absentmindedly, I reply "Sure -- what's the guys name?" -- to which my son
> replied "Anna..."
>
> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying -- how's
> THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>
> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> date?




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

[Peter Duniho]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:6usUe.99016$084.51391@attbi_s22...
> Hmmm. I had not considered that. Probably a good idea, but that will
> REALLY convince my son how "uncool" we are...

Fortunately, "being cool" is not in any way a condition of parenthood. And
that goes double for "being cool in the eyes of one's children".

[john smith]

> Hmmm. I had not considered that. Probably a good idea, but that will
> REALLY convince my son how "uncool" we are...

Why not suggest that Joe talk to the girls parents about it and if they
have any questions, they can call and speak with you or Mary?

[john smith]

In article <6usUe.99016$084.51391@attbi_s22>,
"Jay Honeck" > wrote:

> >> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> >> date?
>
> > If I found myself in that situation (my kids are 27 and 24) I'd be certain
> > to call the girls parents just to make sure that they are O.K. with the
> > idea of their daughter going up in "one of those little planes."
>
> Hmmm. I had not considered that. Probably a good idea, but that will
> REALLY convince my son how "uncool" we are...

Just hope the parents don't Google "Jay Honeck" and read you previous
postings! :-))

[George Patterson]

john smith wrote:
>
> Why not suggest that Joe talk to the girls parents about it and if they
> have any questions, they can call and speak with you or Mary?

I wouldn't trust any 15 year old to do that. I would talk to the girl's parents
myself.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

[Jay Honeck]

> Just hope the parents don't Google "Jay Honeck" and read you previous
> postings! :-))

Are you kidding? They'd be 90 years old before they got through reading the
14,000 articles and references!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Brien K. Meehan]

Back in the day, kids used to like going to the drive-in.

Maybe you could take them to a fly-in instead?

[Montblack]

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
[snip]
> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying --
> how's THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>
> Any suggestions? Did any of you guys ever fly one of your kids out on a
> date?


I was going to contact you back-channel (I've always wanted to type that)
....but I figured what the heck, I'll send it out here instead. Here goes.

The difference between 11 and 16 is like the difference between 20 and 45.
Joey isn't 11 anymore, he's almost 16, and he wants to be 17. He'll be
helped getting there if you treat him like he's 17 - kind of grease the
skids for him, as it were - which won't be easy for you to do, especially if
he *is* acting 11 some afternoon around the house. <g>

Joey next year at OSH?
In his own tent down in Vintage - do they allow 16 year old volunteers?

Joey on a date with a young lady?
Being treated like a [nervous] young man by his pilot father.

This is the long way around for reminding you that it's his date, not Jay's.
Behave yourself Dad :-)

Let's see, both kids in the back seat or his friend up in the right seat
working the controls? It'll be interesting to see how JOEY plays it.

You are PIC. Will you be giving the pre-flight briefing or will you turn
some of that over to ...just a minute!!

"Joey! Stop putting boogers in your sister's hair."

Now, where was I? Oh, I know - However you play it, good luck.


Montblack
I was on my 3rd girlfriend by the time I was 15 ...well, you know what I
mean.

[Jay Honeck]

> This is the long way around for reminding you that it's his date, not
> Jay's. Behave yourself Dad :-)

Check. Snide comments and witty double entendre will be kept to a
minimum...

> Let's see, both kids in the back seat or his friend up in the right seat
> working the controls? It'll be interesting to see how JOEY plays it.

Actually, it was Joe's idea to let her fly the plane. I don't know if he's
trying to thrill her, or trying to test her -- but it'll be interesting.

I just hope the weather isn't like today. 90 degrees, 5 miles vis, gusty
winds -- yuck. A friend and I flew up to Lone Rock for lunch, and it was
butt ugly. Without a GPS, it would have been done with a heading and a
stop-watch, cuz there were certainly no ground landmarks visible. We had to
climb to 9500 feet to get above the very thick haze.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[RST Engineering]

Sounds very like the IOW weather the last Saturday afternoon in July.

{;-)


Jim


"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:N54Ve.323678$x96.243085@attbi_s72...


> I just hope the weather isn't like today. 90 degrees, 5 miles vis, gusty
> winds -- yuck. A friend and I flew up to Lone Rock for lunch, and it was
> butt ugly. Without a GPS, it would have been done with a heading and a
> stop-watch, cuz there were certainly no ground landmarks visible. We had
> to climb to 9500 feet to get above the very thick haze.

[Jack Allison]

RST Engineering wrote:
> Sounds very like the IOW weather the last Saturday afternoon in July.
>
> {;-)

Yes, that was a nasty mixture of heat and humidity. Give me 100+ degree
days here in SacredTomato any day! :-)



--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

[Dave]

You should come up here to Placerville. Its a bit cooler right now. KPVF.
Only about 20 min "as the pilot flys".

"Jack Allison" > wrote in message
...
> RST Engineering wrote:
>> Sounds very like the IOW weather the last Saturday afternoon in July.
>>
>> {;-)
>
> Yes, that was a nasty mixture of heat and humidity. Give me 100+ degree
> days here in SacredTomato any day! :-)
>
>
>
> --
> Jack Allison
> PP-ASEL-IA Student
> Arrow N2104T
>
> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
> with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
> you will always long to return"
> - Leonardo Da Vinci
>
> (Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

[Jay Honeck]

Date update: The girl told Joe today that her "parents didn't think she
should go flying until she knows him better" -- at which point she then
invited HIM out to see a movie tomorrow night!

Ten bucks says that's a line of BS from the parents, who didn't want her
flying in "one of those little planes"...

But, no matter. My kid is happy, for now. Little does he know he's taking
the first step down a VERY slippery slope...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Flyingmonk]

Jay wrote:
>Little does he know he's taking the first step down a VERY slippery slope...

But a very FUN one... : -) I got two daughters, eight and ten. I
dreading the day of the first date...
But I'm well prepared got my twelve gauge ready.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

[Frank Stutzman]

Flyingmonk > wrote:

> But a very FUN one... : -) I got two daughters, eight and ten. I
> dreading the day of the first date...

When you have a boy, you worry about the penis. When you have a girl, you
worry about every penis.

"You want to date my daughter? Come early, you can help me clean my guns"

--
Frank Stutzman
Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl"
Hood River, OR

[N93332]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:1BrVe.325603$x96.45177@attbi_s72...
> Date update: The girl told Joe today that her "parents didn't think she
> should go flying until she knows him better" -- at which point she then
> invited HIM out to see a movie tomorrow night!
>
> Ten bucks says that's a line of BS from the parents, who didn't want her
> flying in "one of those little planes"...

You may have to invite the parents for a plane ride first...

They might just be jealous! ;-)

[Flyingmonk]

Frank wrote:
>"You want to date my daughter? Come early, you can help me clean my guns"

Thanks Frank, I'll remember that one.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

[W P Dixon]

Hmmmm,
Let's see my daughter in a dark movie theatre , with a young fellows
hormones raging like mine did at that age...or go flying where his hands
will be busy? Jay I think your boy got lucky !!!! ;)

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"N93332" > wrote in message
...
> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
> news:1BrVe.325603$x96.45177@attbi_s72...
>> Date update: The girl told Joe today that her "parents didn't think she
>> should go flying until she knows him better" -- at which point she then
>> invited HIM out to see a movie tomorrow night!
>>
>> Ten bucks says that's a line of BS from the parents, who didn't want her
>> flying in "one of those little planes"...
>
> You may have to invite the parents for a plane ride first...
>
> They might just be jealous! ;-)
>

[George Patterson]

W P Dixon wrote:
>
> Let's see my daughter in a dark movie theatre , with a young fellows
> hormones raging like mine did at that age...or go flying where his hands
> will be busy?

You think his hands won't be busy in that movie theater?

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

[W P Dixon]

Yep that's my point ;) As a parent why would you think a movie is safer than
flying ;)

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"George Patterson" > wrote in message
news:8BtVe.10097$c27.5332@trndny01...
>W P Dixon wrote:
>>
>> Let's see my daughter in a dark movie theatre , with a young fellows
>> hormones raging like mine did at that age...or go flying where his hands
>> will be busy?
>
> You think his hands won't be busy in that movie theater?
>
> George Patterson
> Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
> use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

[Montblack]

("George Patterson" wrote)
>> Let's see my daughter in a dark movie theatre , with a young fellows
>> hormones raging like mine did at that age...or go flying where his hands
>> will be busy?

> You think his hands won't be busy in that movie theater?


What was that line from the book/movie Summer of 42?

[dark movie theater scene]
"Thank goodness he didn't reach her elbow!'


Montblack
BTW young bucks out there, French kissing is NOT starting from the neck and
making your way down to her wrist - like Gomez did to his wife on almost
every episode of the The Adam's Family. Learned that one the hard way when I
was 14/15 in Jr High! Doh!

Paul, what are you doing?
Um, I'm Frenching you ...I think? No?

[Montblack]

("Frank Stutzman" wrote)
> When you have a boy, you worry about the penis. When you have a girl, you
> worry about every penis.


Francis Ford Coppola
Kathleen Turner
Nicolas Cage

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091738/
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)


[1950's Mother] Peggy, I don't mean to be intrusive, but are you having
problems with Charlie?

[Peggy Sue] A lot of things are confusing right now, Charlie is just one of
them.

[1950's Mother] Is Charlie pressuring you into doing things you don't think
you should be doing?

[Peggy Sue] What do you mean?

[1950's Mother] Peggy, you know what a penis is? Stay away from it!


Montblack

[john smith]

In article >,
Frank Stutzman > wrote:

> Flyingmonk > wrote:
>
> > But a very FUN one... : -) I got two daughters, eight and ten. I
> > dreading the day of the first date...
>
> When you have a boy, you worry about the penis. When you have a girl, you
> worry about every penis.

Or this one,
Boys send trouble home, girls bring trouble home.

[john smith]

> Yep that's my point ;) As a parent why would you think a movie is safer than
> flying ;)

Maybe the parents should subscribe to this group? We could educate them.

[Jay Honeck]

> BTW young bucks out there, French kissing is NOT starting from the neck
> and making your way down to her wrist - like Gomez did to his wife on
> almost every episode of the The Adam's Family. Learned that one the hard
> way when I was 14/15 in Jr High! Doh!
>
> Paul, what are you doing?
> Um, I'm Frenching you ...I think? No?

That's hilarious!

And almost as bad as me (at probably about Joe's age, 15?) kissing a girl
so passionately that our teeth smashed together, really, REALLY hard. I
mean, like, painfully, "Gosh, did I hurt you? Yes? Oh, crap!" hard.

I'm sure she's still telling that story to her children, wherever they
are...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jay Honeck]

> Let's see my daughter in a dark movie theatre , with a young fellows
> hormones raging like mine did at that age...or go flying where his hands
> will be busy? Jay I think your boy got lucky !!!! ;)

I agree. I think the parents have made a serious tactical error.

Man, that tells you the level of fear that G.A. engenders, no?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[TripFarmer]

Jay,

It's not the Dakota, it's the motel rooms that you own and he has
access to. :o)


Trip


In article <1BrVe.325603$x96.45177@attbi_s72>, says...
>
>Date update: The girl told Joe today that her "parents didn't think she
>should go flying until she knows him better" -- at which point she then
>invited HIM out to see a movie tomorrow night!
>
>Ten bucks says that's a line of BS from the parents, who didn't want her
>flying in "one of those little planes"...
>
>But, no matter. My kid is happy, for now. Little does he know he's taking
>the first step down a VERY slippery slope...
>
>;-)
>--
>Jay Honeck
>Iowa City, IA
>Pathfinder N56993
>www.AlexisParkInn.com
>"Your Aviation Destination"
>
>

[Tom]

Yeah, me too. One Aeronca Champ, one 17 year old and a girl named Tammy.
Problem was, her dad didn't find out until it was over and my dad grounded
me from the Champ for a month.

That was 1962 and there was a lot more interest in flying by young people
then. The airport was full of guys, and gals, and I miss that today.


"Tri-Pacer" > wrote in message
...
>> Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying --
>> how's THAT for starting 'em out young? :-)
>>
>>
>
> At 15, you'd better start him on flight instruction.
>
> I was taking my girl friends on flying dates at 17 without my Dad. <G>
>
> Cheers:
>
> Paul
> N1431A
>
>

[RST Engineering]

A cop is out patrolling the local lover's lane. He sees the usual cars with
the usual steamed up windows, but there is one car with the lights on
inside.

He walks up to the car and sees a kid in the driver's seat reading, and a
girl in the passenger side reading.

He knocks on the window and the kid rolls the window down:

"Evenin', officer"
"Evenin, son, watcha doing?"
"I'm reading a book officer"
"What's the young lady doing?"
"I believe she's reading a book too, officer"
"How old are you, son?"
"Eighteen, officer"
"How old is the young lady?"
"Well, officer, in exactly thirteen minutes, she's going to be eighteen
too."


Jim



"Tom" > wrote in message
...

> Yeah, me too. One Aeronca Champ, one 17 year old and a girl named Tammy.