Clay,
My wife travels the world for her job and has been to France and sampled the moldy sausage! On the flip side the guys at the plant she visited would go hang gliding at lunch.
A few years ago I flew to Houston to have Mark Sanders fix my collarbone that needed a bone graft. On the way back I had a guy like your friend sit next to me! Difference is though I had a big jar of Vicoden from the good doc.