I'm Elizabeth Reese. I'm Marjorie Punit. This is Best to the Nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. It's time for another edition of our watch-read listen.

I've got some good ones. I'm sure you do too, Marjorie. I do. I am just going to confess two

things this morning. One, there are tree tremors outside. So if you hear that anybody, just ignore it.

It is spring. It's a celebration of spring. So it's happening all over my neighborhood.

And two, I rarely admit this, but I am very, very tired. Are you? Yeah, it was a, I flew up to Chicago for the weekend,

and it was just one thing after another, seeing lots of friends. I was, and then went to a really

beautiful wake and funeral. But then I flew home, I flew home Saturday night and I'm still

not fully recovered. I know. I got home at 2 o'clock in the morning because of a mechanical

issue on the plane. But I just have to give a shout out to the very lovely pilot that I was

sitting next to for the whole flight, which is supposed to be in about an hour and a half, but we ended up being on the flight for about three hours.

And the pilot of the plane came on and said, the engine won't start. There's an issue, but they

bring this piece of equipment. We start the engine. Everything's going to be fine. And I don't

love to fly anyway. I think I've talked about that. And in my head, I'm like, okay, just don't tell me that. Don't tell me the engine won't start because it's not like a car where you just to get jumper cables and then you're off and running. This I think was the equivalent of plain jumper cables. Well, yeah. It's also that if the engine

dies in your car, you've pull over. If the engine dies on your plane, it's a little bit of a

different deal. I know. They were talking about mechanical problems when I was flying to Hawaii a few

weeks ago. And it was like, we've got some mechanical problems. So it's going to be delayed. They're doing

this. They're fixing this. And it's just like, it never feels great. It's like, are we 100% sure that the fix worked? I, what are we, are we turning it off and turning it back on? What are we doing here? And I think the transparency actually is really good. I do. But I wanted to give the shout out to the pilot because there's nothing better than

sitting next to a pilot in saying, big deal, not a big deal. And he went through and explained

exactly what was happening. So I sort of had my own personal transportation consultant all the way

home to Manhattan, Kansas. And he was very kind and he was very funny about all of it. But it was wonderful. I wish I could insist on every flight. I have a full-fledged

pilot with me to guide me through all of my questions. Yeah, like your emotional support pilot. That's what it would be. You should get that person on the plane. You, listen, there are accommodations made for all sorts of people in

26. That could be one of them for you. Oh, I love that. Your emotional support pilot, I love it.

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