The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Last week, I took my first plane trip in eleven years.

Naturally, I'd forgotten a lot about those things since I was five, including the heavily standardized script the flight attendant rattles off before takeoff. (This serves the convenient double purpose of emergency instructions and mild sedative.) But on the first leg of the trip, I was lucky enough to get a steward who didn't mind taking a creative riff or two: - "The lavatory is that small door down towards the back. It's the only door on this airplane with an actual knob. Notice that I do not call it a bathroom - this is because ther...