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St Stephen Ames wrote:
 
> I have a crystal ball.  It predicts that at some point, you, Saint
> Stephen Ames, will get in the plane ready to leave with a tiedown
> still attached or a chock still under the wheel.

> I wish you a happy holidays and you wish bad things upon me, nice 
> woman, Scroogebird!...

Please read more carefully, Saint Stephen.  Something else to work
on, while you're considering the difference between an observation
and a judgement.

I don't wish bad things on anyone, including you.

I merely predict.  There's them that has missed something which should
have been caught on preflight, and them that will.

Forgetting something like a tiedown rope or a chock is something
that can happen to anyone, and sometimes all the more to people
who conduct a meticulous preflight according to a set routine.
Then comes the day when something is different--there's a riproaring
wind, so you leave the plane tied while you go to the hangar to get
your CFI.  Or you're parked on a slope, so you leave the chocks in
at the point in your preflight where you'd normally pull them.  And
you get distracted by something else, and it slips your mind, until...
why isn't the plane moving forward?  Been there done that.

IME people who are wedded to a set routine and preflight with a
checklist, the very same way each time they approach the plane
to fly, aren't immune to this happening -- heck perhaps even more
prone to it, because they're depending a little more on a routine
and a little less on observation and on making sure everything gets
checked, but not necessarily in the same way.

A good dollup of self-righteousness about the superiority of one's
own method increases susceptibility to happenings like being unable 
to find one's home airport.  Or missing a tiedown or chock :).  

Now, just in case there's any further lack of grasping my point:
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