I never really did understand the reasoning that went into
naming Amelia Earhart Luggage. I mean, what was the point? Seriously?
About seven years before her plane crashed in the Pacific or
possibly was stolen in mid-flight by aliens, she crashed another plane on this
day, September 25, 1930 at the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station.
Later that night at a dinner party she made light of the
accident saying, “It was just one of those little things.”—Like a bump in the
road, perhaps.
If Mitt Romney had been alive then and running for—I don’t
know—maybe pilot-in-chief, he might have been heard to exclaim, “Just a little
thing! Just a little thing! My God, her plane flipped over and she calls it
just a little thing. How out of touch can one person be?”
Anyway, when I realized that today was the anniversary of
that crash I went looking into my archives—a box labeled “Rejected Stuff.” This
was a letter written to the Virginian-Pilot on May 8, 1979, just a few months
after we had moved to Virginia Beach.
Editor, Virginian-Pilot:
This month’s giveaway at a local bank is a beautiful
matching set of Amelia Earhart luggage—“Something to hold your dreams.” It’s
good to know someone has a sense of humor although the last people I would have
suspected would be the banks.
The possibilities for Amelia Earhart luggage are endless:
Say your mother-in-law came over for dinner one night and
never left; and that was six months ago! Give her a beautiful matching set of
Amelia Earhart luggage for Mother’s Day and kiss her goodbye forever.
Say you borrowed $500 from a friend and now he’s beginning
to threaten you. Don’t fret. Borrow another thousand and send him on an
all-expense paid trip to Pago Pago with his brand new matching set of Amelia
Earhart luggage. Watch your money problems fly out the window.
Say the 9 to 5 rat race has you beat and you want to get
away from it all. Buy yourself a beautiful set of Amelia Earhart luggage and
say goodbye to your workday blues.
And say, it you feel your mother-in-law or friend might get bored on their upcoming excursions, why not pack a handsome surprise in their brand new Amelia Earhart Luggage? How about a copy of Wiley Post's Come Fly With Me?
And say, it you feel your mother-in-law or friend might get bored on their upcoming excursions, why not pack a handsome surprise in their brand new Amelia Earhart Luggage? How about a copy of Wiley Post's Come Fly With Me?
