Today I learned that a Valium is no match for three women sitting next to you who are on their way to their first trip to Italy together and are baffled by the chocolate croissant that comes with the airplane breakfast. It was easier to take my headphones off and explain (with a smile of course) that it is a croissant with chocolate in the middle. I might have been inclined to guzzle wine and curse quietly at them, but it wasn’t worth it. Instead I remembered that I was on my way to a country that requires great courage, patience, and a joy for life. So I also told them that the pink stuff in the breakfast sandwich was bacon.
