As we rolled to a stop my passenger, a large, middle aged man told me his wife would be going up with me next and here she comes now. I followed his glance and saw what was possibly the biggest woman I had ever seen. She was walking towards the glider accompanied by one of the owners of the operation and a line boy. The owner helped the man out of the ship and then he and the line boy huffed and puffed and pushed and pulled on various body parts and finally succeeded in getting the ample lady into the ship.

Unfortunately they got her in backwards. She was standing in the front seat looking at me. Her husband was enjoying the proceedings immensely. He was laughing and cracking jokes. They told her to turn around and sit down. This was no easy maneuver for her. She was quite jovial about the whole thing and said, “ I think I need a bigger airplane”. The line boy, silver tongued lad that he was said, “Lady this is the biggest ship we got”.

Now her husband really cracked up. I thought he would fall on the ground and start to roll around. “Howard”, the lady said,” If you ever tell anyone what that kid said, you will get nothing but wieners and beans for a week”.

As luck would have it the Cessna 150/150 tow ship pulled up close, took a good look at us, made a 180 turn and stopped. I could see the line boy and the pilot talking and gesturing. Then the tow plane made 90 degree turn and head across to take another glider waiting to be towed. The line boy came back to us and said, ”We are gonna get a tow plane with a bigger engine. Howard forgot all about the wieners and beans and was laughing and slapping his knees.

We finally got airborne and completed the flight. The lady was happy, I was happy, and Howard was still laughing.