Kyle Boatright wrote:
What's your response when you tell someone you're going flying and they
say "Be careful."?

I know the comment is well intended, but I've seen some of these people
drive (and eat), and trust me, my flying is far safer than what they do
to themselves on a daily basis.

Mostly, I say "Thank you.", but from time to time, I go into a sermon
about how flying is pretty safe IF you don't do stupid things like run
out of gas or fly in conditions beyond your abilities. Then I realize I
probably bored someone or came across too strong and revert back to
"Thank you".

And there are times I'm tempted to say "Naah, it would be the hilight of
my day to end up at the bottom a smoking hole in the airplane I built."


I wouldn't see this as anything other than someone expressing a wish
that you don't get hurt, which is simply a verbal expression of caring
what happens to you.

To make something other than out of it might be to read into it your own
slant rather than what was intended by the person making the comment.
Shakespeare had it right; "Much Ado About Nothing" :-)

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Dudley Henriques