u/Appropriate-Offer-35

Recently when I’ve contacted them, I’ve had to wait much longer than usual both for their initial contact and each response they give. Three times I’ve seen them typing, then go silent, then respond immediately as soon as I ask if they’re still there. These customer service chat ladies are collectively the love of my life and I don’t know what I’d do without them. Actually I’d probably switch banks lol. Has anyone else experienced this recently?

They’re not exactly the same but they do have some common features.

Brief context, I went through all the training to be a commercial pilot, but I can’t be one because of medical issues. But these dreams started when I was in high school, before all that.

1. They’re large airliners. 747s or the like.

2. Early in the dream, they fly very low over me. Not treetop level, but clearly low enough that I recognize something wrong.

3. Nobody else around me (usually family/friends) thinks anything’s wrong, and they think I’m being irrational for thinking there is. I say to myself, there’s no way you need special training to know that’s fucked up. (Obviously that part only came about after I had the training, but it was still along the lines of “am I crazy? Why does nobody seem to care?”)

4. We’re on a deck, high road, or somewhere we can see far away. The plane flies towards the horizon, well away from where I’m standing, it does a number of steep banks, then recovers for a moment, then starts banking again, like the pilots are fighting to control it.

5. The plane always crashes, there’s always a big fire on the horizon, and there’s some sort of reaction by the people around me, but those details are foggier.

One other thing to know, my childhood home was on a hill and on a clear day with no leaves on the trees I could see planes arriving and departing from a major airport on the horizon.

The dreams aren’t pleasant, but I wouldn’t call them outright nightmares.

Guess I’m just curious what people think about them.

Not only did it log me out, it forgot my password, which I last set probably 5 years ago. Ticket was activated and ready to go. Then when I did log in, the ticket was just gone.

The conductor knew my face and was cool with it, but that was pure luck. Are they at least being lenient while they work the bugs out? (Gonna guess no.)

43m, non teacher here. Not sure why this sub shows up on my feed, but it does, so I read it.

What strikes me the most is not the complaints about the kids, or the admins, or the political climate. It’s the parents. When did it become a thing for a kid to be a little shit in class and the parents reflexively *defending* the kid?!

If a teacher called my parents and said I did something shitty, they would 1) take it as an iron-clad fact, 2) take it as a given that I was the one at fault, and 3) make my life difficult for at least a couple of day as a deterrent. Same for all of my friends. Granted, my parents were highly invested, School Uber Alles types, but even the kids who weren’t great students and got into their share of trouble would always assume, correctly, that whenever their latest diabolical plot goes to shit, it will be their parents and the teacher vs them. Even the shitty parents who didn’t care would assume the teacher was right. Even if the teacher was lousy and my parents knew it, they would have to do something really egregious before it became any less than 98% my fault.

Is this a generational thing or a socioeconomic thing? Is it because they’re worried their kid won’t get into a good college with a disciplinary record, so they have to fight everything tooth and nail? Do they get the message somewhere that their kid, solely by virtue of being *their* kid, can do no wrong? Are they parenting for their own egos and not the kid’s benefit?

I don’t have kids. If you put me in a classroom, I’d last about 5 minutes before it turned into a crack den and Russian puppet state. I ask because the more I hear, the sadder I get about my own generation, let alone the kids.