Mayday

Mine and Molly's goal with this blog is to educate as well as entertain and since it is May 1st, I did a little bit of research on the word mayday and how it became the international distress signal. A senior radio officer, Frederick Stanley Mockford, at the Croydon Airport in London was asked to think of a word that would be understood by all pilots and ground crew in the event of an emergency. Since most of his communication was with Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he came up with "mayday" from the French word "m'aider", a shortened version of the phrase "venez m'aider" which translated is "come and help me." The word mayday as a distress call was adopted internationally in 1927.

The only mayday that Molly and I need is help getting off the couch and if you come over, how about stopping somewhere and picking us up a pizza. It would save us a trip. Molly has a preference for Domino's crust if that helps any.