by Calvin Trillin
I thought this was going to be hilariously gut-busting, so I suffered the disappointment of overblown anticipation. There ought to be a word for that--that feeling you get when your expectations for something are all out of proportion to the realities of it. That doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't humorous and maybe even funny at times. Just not enough.
As a collection of short essays in a newspaper--and I think that's where this came from--I'd definitely read them every time. Here's an example--instead of eating the tired, drab airplane meal that everyone suffers because it's free food, he decides to prepare one for himself. He just goes...a little...overboard. The reactions from the lady sitting beside him make you wish you were there.
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