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    The Middle Seat: Volume II: Never Check A Bag You Want To Keep
    The Middle Seat: Volume II: Never Check A Bag You Want To Keep
    The Middle Seat: Volume II: Never Check A Bag You Want To Keep
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    The Middle Seat: Volume II: Never Check A Bag You Want To Keep

    By Jay Conlin

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    Picking up where Volume I left off, Volume II continues to share the popular humor filled posts from the blog, The Middle Seat. Written by corporate executive Jay Conlin who travels frequently for business. The Middle Seat captures the spirit of the weary "Road Warrior" while mixing in stories from his family life as well...which includes two very big (and sometimes not so obedient) dogs. The second of three eBooks, Volume II covers the second six months of the blog from October 2011 through March of 2012.
    The Middle Seat is a fun, sometimes heartfelt but always humorous look at one man's life of Business Travel.

    The blog continues today and is carried by The Reading Eagle Newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay Conlin
    Release dateApr 19, 2014
    ISBN9781311000705
    The Middle Seat: Volume II: Never Check A Bag You Want To Keep

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      The Middle Seat - Jay Conlin

      The Middle Seat - Volume II

      Never Check a Bag You Want To Keep

      Published by Jay Conlin at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Jay Conlin

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This e-book contains the stories I have been sharing since 2011 on my Blog called The Middle Seat. I have decided to put them in eBook form. This is Volume II and it covers the time period from October 2011 through March 2012 when I temporarily suspended the Blog. Later that year my local paper, The Reading Eagle, picked the Blog up and it continues today. You can find Volume I which covers March 2011 through September 2011 on Smashwords.com…I hope you enjoy…

      Chapter 1 - Welcome To the Middle Seat

      I travel for a living. Actually I negotiate labor agreements for a living and since my territory is the entire United States, I travel...a lot. The work does not come to me so I go to the work. Now I know other people travel more than I do but given that I am On the road at least 40 weeks a year, I felt that qualified as enough travel time to tell people. When you travel that much...things happen. For instance, three years ago I flew to Florida in mid-December (with my wife) simply so I could achieve the highest status on my preferred airline. It was a brilliant plan and I did achieve my status...our flights home were also canceled which meant we drove home to Pennsylvania (I needed to be back for work). Oh yes, and I got the stomach flu somewhere around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It wasn't pretty. My wife drove by the way...

      Chapter 2 - An Explanation…Okay Two Explanations…

      I realize the last time I posted a real post was way back on September 14th. It’s no excuse but here is why. After spending the summer in St. Louis finishing all five contracts I was exhausted with nothing left in the tank. Add in the fact that I went through the bi-polar emotional experience of dropping off my oldest son at college (so proud yet so sad) and I simply needed a break. Just one problem. I did not really get one. I spent three more Last weeks in St. Louis trying to get the final two contracts finished (finally did), took a weekend guy trip with many college friends to Madison to see Jim and the UW-Nebraska game (okay that was a break but it left me even more tired) and then dove in head first into our Detroit negotiations. In a word I have been BUSY. So what has changed that allows me to blog again? Well, I am finally back home for a bit…except for one thing.

      Flip back to January of this year and I am sitting in our man room (it is essentially a small library with a fireplace. My brother-in-law nicknamed this room when we first moved in). Truth be told Sue decorated it and it has very few man cave amenities other than I am allowed to sit in there and enjoy an adult beverage or two. That is exactly what I am doing when Sue walks in and sits down…also with an adult beverage. The fire is going, it is a Saturday and I am relaxed, calm and content…in other words I am primed to be victimized which is exactly what happens next. After sitting down Sue announced that she felt the need to do more. Being the supportive husband I provided the obligatory um-hmm. She continued to walk me down this plank discussing how friends of ours do more with their church, how it is important to give back, etc., etc. I was on a roll and continued the um-hmm’s almost as fast a she could spout reasons why we were big charitable failures. She then announced that she intended to go on a church mission with a friend of hers (and a large group)…to South Africa….in November. Before I could stop myself I said um-hmm and she was out of the man-room and into the kitchen cooking dinner. I had been had and barely knew it…

      But I know it today as this is departure day. Sue is off to Connecticut to spend the night with her brother and sister in law before she flies out tomorrow. She returns

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