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Galley Gossip: A letter from a frequent flyin', two-timin', cheat! {Gadling}
Aug 25th 2009 5:40PM Among your numerous captivating stories, this is your best one! Creative, witty and fun. Cheers!
Galley Gossip: Attention Sharon Stone, GIVE ME THAT BAG! {Gadling}
Jul 10th 2009 2:00PM Passengers who fail to comply with Flight Attendants' instructions irritate me because I do not understand them. I will often trip them when they pass by me later in the flight. The FAs are there primarily to ensure the safety of passengers, like me. I take it personally when passengers interfere with FAs. Moreover, how would passengers feel if I were to go visit them at their jobs and be difficult with them when they're just trying to do their jobs? FAs should be issued whistles and blow them in passengers' ears when passengers fail to comply.
Galley Gossip: Why ring the flight attendant call light when you can send a tweet - and get results! {Gadling}
Jul 1st 2009 11:42PM Twitter should send you some love for this story. It's a great story that tangibly demonstrates the power of tweeting (I'm not sure I'm a Twitter kind of lad, but I appreciate that many people enjoy it). Cheers.
Galley Gossip: A question about why I'm based in New York when I live in California {Gadling}
Jan 12th 2009 6:44PM I understand why you're a writer. It's very easy and interesting to read your writing. You should earn hazard pay for the O-Dark-Thirty summons to EWR, but you don't seem to be the type to complain about it. Cheers.
Galley Gossip: A question about being a flight attendant and having a young child at home {Gadling}
Jan 9th 2009 1:02PM Thank you very much for sharing this article, which proved to be informative (about the airline industry) and uplifting (in terms of family bonds). Safe travels to you Mme.
Galley Gossip: The second best thing about being a flight attendant - Waikiki, Hawaii {Gadling}
Oct 10th 2008 11:46PM I want to be you. :-)
It's rad that you and your two pals played hockey and stayed longer in Hawaii.
I love Hawaii, especially as it is so close from the West Coast. I've sold my soul in Waikiki a few times in my life.
Cheers.
Galley Gossip: The best thing about being a flight attendant - Travel! (Monterey & Carmel, CA) {Gadling}
Oct 6th 2008 2:33AM You're my hero for playing hockey, I mean hookey, to go to Carmel for the day! I am quite fond of the place. For your next hockey game, you should take the tyke to Santa Barbara or Catalina while the weather's still warm (or, maybe Mama needs a trip to Cabazon). Yup, I'm trying to live vicariously because I'll be chained to work for awhile. Cheers.
Galley Gossip: Ma'am, is that a frying pan in your bag? {Gadling}
Aug 8th 2008 4:02AM That was very sweet of your grand-daddy to give you potatoes from his garden. Of course, your allusion to cast-iron skillets now has me craving fried chicken at midnight.
I've often seen some strange carry-on items on flights to or from SFO, but the strangest item to me was on a LAX>BOS flight. A peculiar gentleman carried his acquarium fish in a Ziploc bag. Perhaps flying stressed them out because the guppies didn't make it. Another lad on a LAS>DEN flight decided to bring his pet squirrel on the plane. The rascal escaped during the flight, and its owner was still searching for it on the plane when I exited the plane.
I'm not a fan of TSA agents. I gave them a lot of slack in the beginning, assuming they would focus on keeping plane travel safe and feeling sympathy for the large volume of passengers and bags they must screen. Unfortunately, I've acquiesced into accepting that they think they can do whatever the heck they feel they like doing. I've encountered too many instances where they've behaved unprofessionally. For example, on multiple occasions, I've seen them embarrass women who carry "toys" in their carry-on bags. Instead of just examining them quietly to make sure there's nothing dangerous inside and moving on, I've seen them hold them up in the air and openly called their mates over, all seemingly just to cause a spectacle. Moreover, they tend to misunderstand the narrow scope of their jobs, apply rules arbitrarily and act according to thier moods instead of their senses. I don't feel any safer since TSA agents were introduced. I will desist because I don't want to be boring.
Best of luck with your Love on the Plane contest.
Galley Gossip: Flight Attendant Pet Peeve #3: You want me to do what? {Gadling}
Jul 18th 2008 2:45AM Many of the comments about this article reflect a lack of innate intelligence. I read nothing in the article that could be construed as complaining on the part of the author. The author merely seemed to share a viewpoint that she classified as a Pet Peeve. The emphasis is on sharing, as in sharing thoughts or feelings.
The ridiculously stupid comments seem to demonstrate projection--not sharing. For selfish reasons, people seem to generalize and falsely label the author's viewpoint as a complaint. I believe they do this to justify their pitiful need to jump on a soap-box and project shortcomings in and complaints about their own lives.
It's a shame that the people who submit these dumb comments lack the intelligence to share something insightful, humorous or compelling. They should save their personal projection and venting for their friends, family members or therapists. Instead, they waste other people's time by posting irrelevant comments.
It's great that the Internet affords these bottom-feeders the opportunity to practice their typing and writing skills. It's too bad that they can't learn how to provide pertinent and worthwhile feedback.
Galley Gossip: Airline Bashing, bringing the world together {Gadling}
Jul 8th 2008 12:50AM Thank you for sharing. Both the repitition and nature of the dialogue must be annoying and boring. I never thought of this before you wrote about it.
I offer a slightly different, sympathetic perspective. Many people seem not to know how to behave socially, which irritates me. Even if they are unable to hold an intelligent, interesting conversation, I wish they could at minimum be polite and courteous. Then, I remember that some people are "front of the house" people, and others are clearly "back of the house" people. Those who have the skills for "both sides of the house" seem rare lately.
One of my pet peeves is when someone at any company doesn't understand how to converse properly with a client, customer or prospect. In my view, even a mechanical enginner or actuary should know how to carry a conversation adequately. Maybe he/she will encounter one on the way to the restroom, on the phone accidentally--or on an airplane. This also entails smiling and saying nothing. If this is too much to ask, I have a constructive solution: Stay in the "back of the house."
For me, the immutable shortcoming with "back of the house" people is that they have no awareness that there is a time and place for things. And for those who might decide to bore an attorney, flight attendant or suit about the perceived flaws of the legal system, airline industry or corporate America, I ask that they just smile and say nothing. :-)
