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This one happened to me in my own airplane. It was the 24th of December and I was flying home from work. I commuted daily by airplane at that point in my life. The weather was blustery; cloudy/overcast and windy. Luckily there wasn’t ice in the clouds.I was in a bit of a rush because of a planned “Christmas Eve dinner” with friends.After take-off I flipped the switch to raise the landing gear and got an indication that the gear didn’t retract completely. Not a problem, my airplane, a Piper Comanche 250 has a practically perfect “emergency” gear extension system. He says…When I reached the vicinity of my home airport I set up for the instrument approach and as I joined the approach course I set the landing gear switch to extend the landing gear. Nothing happened! Oops… But I was ready, I immediately followed the “emergency gear extension check list” - guaranteed to extend the gear. Well,not this time.I told Air Traffic Control (ATC) of my problem and they cleared me to a “holding pattern” where I could try to resolve the problem. After 30 minutes or so of flying the racetrack holding pattern I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to get the landing gear to extend. So, I resigned myself to a gear up landing.Rather than landing at my home airport where the local fire department would be called… I chose a nearby airport that had an on-airport fire department and that was trained to deal with aircraft accidents.By this time it was getting late. Ideally I would have flown around until the majority of fuel on board was used, but I’d refueled before I took off so I had maybe five hours of fuel remaining.I decided it was time to “bite the bullet” and land. My wife had been called and I figured she was probably there or close. Turns out she watched the landing just as she arrived at the airport. I talked to the airport fire department Captain and told him about my fuel load, where a fire might start (right under the cabin), the fact that the only door was on the right side of the aircraft and that, given everything went well I would exit the aircraft and move rapidly diagonally away from the starboard rear of the aircraft.The aircraft touched down harder than I wanted, but it slid less than 200 feet.Turn out a single bolt that holds the landing gear in a certain orientation had sheared and the landing gear had jammed in the wheel well. A $1 bolt…A few months later, it was good as new and I went back to commuting to work by air rather than a 2 hour car drive each way…

Ha! I had a chat with my gf about this and we had a good laugh about the misconceptions that we could think of.I have a feeling this is going to be a long one……!One of us is ‘the man’The very idea of being a lesbian is that neither of you are men. Sex and relationships can happen without any man, or an idea of a man, being involved in them. If someone wears trousers and tops that are typically considered to be ‘male’, or cuts their hair short, the last I checked, men don’t have a copyright over clothing, hairstyles or attitude. Men don’t usually have vaginas either. Unless one person in the relationship is a F2M trans guy or gender queer, or self identifies as a man, then both parties are most definitely female and no man is involved.We have sex like porn starsHate to break it to you boys, but lesbian sex is nothing like you see in the pornos. We don’t all fuck each other with dildos, then give that dildo a blowjob whilst our girlfriend spits on our vagina and fingers us with 12 inch nails. We have amazing sex, and it’s nothing like that.That we always use strap onsSome ladies love to use strap-ons. It’s another way of having intimate sex with the partner you are with. Many women never use them. I am not personally a fan. It is not a ‘replacement cock’ it is a phallic shaped object, that just so happens to fit inside of a pleasure source that we own. It has nothing to do with ‘missing cock’ or ‘wanting a man’. It is simply us exploring our sexuality and sexual pleasure through things that fit in our bodies.We are lesbians because of Daddy issues / Bad experiences with men / Can’t get a manWe are lesbians because we like girls. No amount of Daddy issues or bad experiences will change who we are sexually attracted to. Some Straight women date complete assholes all the time who treat them like shit but they still keep going for other male assholes. Why don’t they turn lesbian? Because despite their poor taste in men, they are attracted to men. Not women. Same here. As for ‘Can’t get a man’, that isn’t the case at all. We have a vagina. We have a personality. We are fun to be around. There will be a man somewhere that will find us attractive and want to be with us if we wanted that. Guys, if you couldn’t get a girlfriend for a while, would that make you start liking penis? Nope… didn’t think so!Sex between girls is always loving and gentleSex can be loving and gentle, but most of the time, it’s hot, angry, sexy and explosive! Lesbians fuck. We don’t need a penis or a dildo to fuck. We do it just fine without!Being with a woman is easier than being with a manAnyone who knows any lesbians, will probably know that they will always bring up how CRAAZZYYY their ex was or how difficult being with a woman is. If you’ve dated women, you’ll probably know this too. Women don’t always say what they mean. You have to read between the lines, you have to cope with the hormonal differences of when she’s got PMS, they say one thing, mean another, they cry for no reason sometimes and other times, they cry for reasons that remain a total mystery to you but get upset when you don't know why! Women are generally hard to be with overall! From the point of view of my bisexual girlfriend, she believes that men are far easier to be with. At least they say what they mean! (most of the time…)You must have amazing sex because you have the same equipmentIf you’ve ever met a vagina and got to know it intimately, you’ll know that what worked for that particular piece of flesh / person, was not the same as the next piece of flesh / person that you met. Guys are pretty straight forward with being sexually stimulated overall. Women, are much harder to gauge! Just because we have one, doesn’t mean we know how to work all others instinctively.Women move in together on the second date, then break upOk, so although I’ve listed this as a misconception, it is actually quite true for many lesbians. You are convinced you’re in endless love from the first date. By date 3, you’ve adopted a cat and planned your wedding. By date 5, you’ve moved in. By date 9, you’re crying into a gallon of Häagen-Dazs whilst inhaling the cat’s fur and watching the L word on repeat whilst you rehash the last 5 weeks and what went wrong. But, not all of us are like this. Some of us are very capable of long term relationships.We hate all men and are radical feministsI love men! Men are some of my favourite people in the world. Some of my best friends are men! Just because I don’t want to put their penis in my body or share my intimate life with them, does not mean I or any other lesbian, hate them. What did they do to deserve such a reputation? Sure the Patriarchal system is complete horseshit but I don’t believe that being born into a gender makes you responsible for the actions of others. We take everyone as they come. If you’re an asshole, then we have reason to not like / hate you :)That a lesbian can be turned straight by a ‘good fucking’As much as you may adore your penis and think it is the best thing to ever happen to not only you, but the entire female population, that little meat stick you have in your trousers does not shoot out magical sexual orientation changing fairy dust that makes lesbians suddenly abandon the sexuality they were born with and stop finding boobs the greatest things in earth. Do you think we've never had an orgasm with a woman before? Do you think we've never been fucked to the point of seeing double before? Do you have enough stamina to have sex for 6 hours straight complete with 20 orgasms? If you do, you should look into porn rather than lesbians as we are able to do this with ease.I'm a former sex worker. If anyone has had a ‘good fucking’ it's me. Did it change me from loving women and Vaginas to suddenly declaring my love of penis? Nope.. Safe to say I have tested this theory extensively and you've failed miserably :-)Guys think that lesbian relationships are an open invitation to them and their penis “Can I join you ladies? Let me know if you want a threesome”No. No. No. No. Fuck off. No. No. No. No.Did I mention Fuck off?We are not here for your entertainment. We are not inviting you into our lives or our bed because you’ve seen us kissing. We are in love and you inviting yourself into our sexual relationship is one of the most disrespectful things you could do and we will have no problem with telling you that.People don’t think it’s rude to hit on, or talk about your gf in front of you.I have had guys come up to me and tell me that they would “Smash your girlfriend all over!” and “Holy shit, she’s soo fucking hot! I want to fuck her” and “I bet her pussy tastes amazing” then proceed to try and chat her up in front of me. The same as happened with men trying it on with me in front of my girlfriends and saying similar things to them. Let me put this straight for you (no pun intended).That’s my girlfriend. The one you have boiled down to a pretty piece of flesh with good genetics and amazing boobs. She is the love of my life. The one I have pledged to marry. She deserves respect. I deserve respect. We deserve respect. Just because you are attracted to her or me or both of us, does not give you the right to inject yourself into our relationship or to make derogatory, rude comments about her or me. Go find yourself a nice, big, strong, fierce looking straight guy with his beautiful girlfriend and you whisper in his ear that you want to smash his girlfriend all over, and see what gets smashed that evening, k love?The End

This is Simon Lewis. Simon is an introvert.His closest friends say he can tend to give out arrogant vibes, when all he really wants is to be left alone for a while to be able to recharge himself.This can come across as a sense of superiority because it’s often difficult for extroverted people to understand what an introvert is going through because of a completely different personality orientation.Simon finds this to be really sad. He’s not arrogant, just another introvert.Negative trait 1: Appear arrogant to non-introvertsSimon sucks at small talk.As a result of which, you won’t find many Simons initiating a friendly conversation.And even when he does (like he is often forced to at work), the conversation will be dull because there’s just so much he can talk about the weather before his introverted tendencies kick in and he needs to retreat to his quiet happy place. :3Simon is tired after having to talk with his new senior manager for half an hour.(Being able to carry on a conversation with utmost ease is a challenging skill introverts have to work on to develop. Unlike a lot of people, they don’t have prayer of coming it to them naturally).Negative trait 2: Suck at starting conversations, or carrying on with one.Simon takes his own time(which is a scaring-ly lot for a guy in his twenties) to open up to other people, and when he does, he can count the people he truly is close to on his fingers on either hand.(This is not exclusively a bad thing, but its nor is it good to be a wall instead of a person, for people who want to be friends with you may not be able to break through the wall).Negative trait 3: Take a lot of time and effort to open up.But when he does open up…its magical.Introverts can have amazingly brilliant discussions on things that matter. They can sweep you off with their intellect and versatility. Their depth and profoundness could amaze you, could mentally take you to places you’ve never been. And it will be a luxury not many people can afford - to get a glimpse of what goes on in their brilliant minds.Simon loves people with whom he can have meaningful discussions on the things that really matter in life, and fall easily for the ones who appreciates him for this very thing.When introverts fall, they fall hard and deep, and it becomes an extremely difficult thing to even attempt to come back : for then the other person holds pieces of their mind.Simon finds it exceptionally hard to get over things. It took him ten years to tell his best friend Clary that he loved her. It was too late by then. He bitterly hated the guy Clary started going out with(Jace).Negative trait 4: They feel too much. Way too much - its unhealthy.Simon was sad for a long while. He did not share his sadness with anyone. It took him months to figure that one of Clary’s friends, Isabelle, likes him. It was another few months before they got together again. Isabelle, a complete extrovert, was often frustrated by him on this.Introverts take their time to settle, just the way they take time to open up. Peer-pressure and what the society thinks is paid no heed to by the introvert, who cannot ever rush getting into a relationship before knowing them through and through. Introverts have a special mental check-list on which checking-off a majority of things is absolutely essential for them to move further. There’s just NO point rushing things with an introvert.Negative trait 5: They are too choosy when it comes to relationships. They take their time.P.S. Those pictures above were from one of my MOST favorite fantasy-fiction franchise: The Mortal Instruments and Simon is one of the leading characters of the same. (Sadly the movies suck, although the books are legendary!).