My cooking analogy is "lame", and Phil's (to my mind, amusing and apposite) Ferrari analogy is "rubbish"....
It is always pleasant to be reminded of why I sooooo do not want to be an airline pilot.
As I've said, I would never ask or expect a friend to pay to fly with me, but, if I did, and he said no, I wouldn't go on about it as though it was in some way a terrible injustice for your acquaintances to decline to assist financially in the achievement of your ambitions or fulfilment of your enthusiasms. At the risk of sounding like one of Monty Python's four Yorkshireman (by eck, lad, we 'ad it tough), I recall that I trained for my profession without grants etc. I did grotty McJobs, sponged off my (non-wealthy) parents, ran guns/drugs/vice girls etc etc (no, no, Mr Bar Council, some of that is not true). I didn't pass the hat around my friends.
[exits hastily in direction of tin-hat cupboard, humming Dorothy Parton/Tammy Wynette classic "No Charge"]
Last edited by FNG; 29th January 2003 at 10:08.