Fond memories

[GunnyGene]

Funny how a seemingly inconsequential event can stick with you for decades. Back when I was doing a fair bit of business travel for Boeing in the late '80's & early 90's, I recall one flight in particular. I'd brought a fresh apple on board with me that I planned on eating during the flight on a 737. Heading back East from Seattle, but don't recall why. Anyway, I had a aisle seat in Business class. About halfway thru the flight I dug the apple out and started cutting off bite size pieces with a small pocket knife that I always carried. Right across the aisle was a young boy (looked about 6 or 7yo) in the aisle seat, with his mother dozing in the window seat next to him. I noticed he was watching me intently as I cut off pieces, so I cut off a piece and stuck it on the point of the knife and held it out to him. Not a word was said. He took the piece, smiled a little, popped it in his mouth and looked content. I guess he'd never seen anyone eat an apple that way. Mom never even knew about it, so it was our little secret.

Sometimes I wonder how his life has turned out.

 

[eveled]

I was thinking the opposite that he had seen someone eat an apple like that, and usually got a piece.

It would be interesting to see how he grew up.

Thanks for the nice story.

My Dad always ate an apple like that. I always thought it was the way a real man ate an apple.

One day he saw me take a bite out of an apple and he said “I wish I could eat them like that!” Lol.

He cut them up because of his dentures.

 

[graygun]

Maybe he became a jarhead.

 

[jimbo1096]

Uncle we lived with would spiral peel the apple with his pocket knife and then slice them to eat. Peel would usuall be one long unbroken piece. Wish I could do that.

 

[Dave P.]

Of course nowadays I'm not sure you could even carry the apple on to the flight and if you did you'd have to gnaw on it like a rodent.
Feed someone else's kid, they'd probably want you arrested.
Our world has not improved.
I got to go flying with my uncle in singles and light twins when I was in my single digits, he was an WWII P51 pilot and would take my dad and I flying fairly often. I remember my first commercial flight was on an Eastern Airlines 707 to Florida. I asked and got to go up and stand in the cockpit for a while.
Every time we flew somewhere I'd always ask, lotta buttons and switches for a 10 year old.

 

[Bob Wright]

I have not thought of slicing off pieces of an apple with my pocket knife in a long time. Thanks for jiggling my memory.

And, yeah, I've tried to peel apples, oranges, and potatoes leaving just one long strip of peeling.

Bob Wright

 

[Fox Mike]

If you can carry an apple you can forget the penknife.

 

[contender]

Little events in our lives often make us smile & wonder. And yes,, times sure have changed. Can't carry a knife on a plane anymore, (thanks to terrorists,) can't give kids anything from a stranger, (thanks to child predators,) and do many things that used to be common.
But a simple little good thing like sharing, or making a kid smile is priceless.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Taking a pocket knife away from a man is just part of the femenizing of the species. Drives me nuts.

 

[Kevin]

Taking a pocket knife away from a man is just part of the femenizing of the species. Drives me nuts.

I think the TSA takes knives from women also, but I’m not sure what they call that!