{"id":42,"date":"2004-11-30T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:56:52","slug":"fox-2-on-the-yellow-mini-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Fox-2 on the Yellow Mini Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny, I have the same reaction when I hear air traffic controllers whine about stress . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

Drudge<\/a> links to this Evening Standard article: Commuting ‘more stressful than flying a jet fighter’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lead sentence: “A major new study claims the average journey by train or bus is more stressful than being a fighter pilot in combat, or a police officer in a riot.”<\/p>\n

Okay, I was never a policeman, but I did fly fighters, so let me ask you this: when was the last time you disembarked from a train or bus drenched in sweat, two to three pounds lighter than when you boarded?<\/p>\n

If commuting was like flying a fighter, agoraphobia<\/a> would replace the common cold. If American-style commuting – driving yourself to and from work – was like flying a fighter, only one in 10,000 adults would be qualified to drive at all. Even fewer would be qualified to drive in traffic, and fewer still to drive alone, without crew and co-driver. Annually, every driver would be required to pass a physical, a written examination on driving rules and regulations, and a rigorous check drive administered by inspector drivers from the Board of Traffic Standardization and Evaluation. Driving under the influence would result in immediate and permanent loss of license, with no possible appeal.<\/p>\n

Actually, now that I think about it . . . what a brilliant idea! Bring it on!<\/p>\n\n\n

\u2014 back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny, I have the same reaction when I hear air traffic controllers whine about stress . . . Drudge links to this Evening Standard article: Commuting ‘more stressful than flying a jet fighter’. Lead sentence: “A major new study claims the average journey by train or bus is more stressful than being a fighter pilot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","tag-air-minded"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32747,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/32747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}