"The flight will be uneventful"

I have a habit of asking planes what is going to happen on a flight I'm going to be on. I start asking this a few days before flying anywhere. I do this because once you board that flight whatever happens to everyone else on that plane is also going to happen to you. Once that plane takes off whatever happens to the plane happens to you also.

So, I keep asking whatever plane I'm riding on and God (is this flight safe for me to be on?). If I get a "No!" at any point I simply will not get on the flight. No questions asked. My life is more important than whatever I paid for the ticket. So far, every flight the plane has done exactly what it told me.

For example, a plane once told me when I was flying from Palm Springs to San Jose Airport that it would be turbulent but my family and I would be fine. As we landed in San Jose in the landing pattern suddenly the plane went straight up. People began to scream and throw up. My wife asked me if we were going to survive. I told her the plane had told me that it would be turbulent but we would all survive. Everyone else on the plane was hysterical or throwing up. My 2 1/2 year old daughter was saying "Whee" like she was on a roller coaster and laughing. My wife and I were concerned but inside I knew we would be okay.

An executive said later, "We almost lost 48 members of our exective level of our company. We cannot have this many executives fly on the same plane ever again." I overheard the pilot telling a stewardess, "A small plane came up underneath us but because we had a plane on each wing we had no choice but to go straight up to avoid a multi-airplane crash."

Yesterday wasn't like that at all. I was told clearly 5 hours before we took off, "The flight will be uneventful", which was true. From the time we took off it was great. However, what I hadn't been told was that we were going to have to weight for 3 hours on the plane to take off because of an electrical problem that had to be worked out.

But, yes, after we took off it was only 1 hour and 30 minutes (because of the jet stream behind us pushing us) before we landed at San Francisco Airport after taking off from Seattle.

I was watching a preview of the movie "Lucy" with Scarlett Johansson and it made me think about this once again.