“She was studying in the U.K. and I really wanted to see her,” he explained, noting he doesn’t live near a major airport in North Carolina. “One time I was like, ‘Screw it. I’m just gonna rent a private jet and fly to her because I really want to see her.’ But if I don’t rent a PJ, I literally just can’t make it work.’”
“A PJ flight is eight hours, whereas, commercial it’d be like 19 there and back,” Jimmy explained. “It’s like so much wasted time, and that was probably, like $150,000.”
But while the YouTuber felt “so bad,” he reasoned away the guilt, sharing, “I just really wanted to see my fiance, or at the time, my girlfriend.”
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