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Article: Almost a Blue-Suit Julienne.
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- Approach
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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How many of us have a cross-country tale where a good deal turned into a nightmare? Most cross-countries live up to our expectations, but every once in a while, something turns so bad that we have to stop and assess just what caused it to go wrong. This is a story about one of those flights.
I consider myself lucky to have a wife who lets me do cross-countries on a regular basis. When you're stationed in Japan, the cross-country locations are decent. The caveat was that I had to buy some nice (read expensive) trinkets or complete 75 percent of the shopping list she handed to me at the door to keep my good-deal meter running. This particular trip was to Osan, and, ...