Yesterday I had to be at the airport by 0515. We worked for almost ten hours (almost 8 of flying) and when we disembarked in San Francisco it was not even 1300/1:00 pm! It was one of those gorgeous, clear, warm days in San Fran. I took a quick 30 minute power nap then we took the BART downtown with two of my fellow crew members
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Title: Two Thousand Miles (I'll Be home For Christmas) Author: katmarajade Pairing: Sulu/Chekov Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 6589 Summary: Airline pilot Hikaru Sulu winds up stranded in Iowa on Christmas Eve. Determined to get back to Pavel, his journey home is a long, crazy one filled with interesting characters, run ins with old friends, and many surprises. No
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Two passengers from the past week. Which one makes you facepalm harder?
Passenger 1: Came out of the lavatory and asked me (in all seriousness) if the little placard showing him how to find the door to the lav was really necessary. (This is the little sign in airplane lavs that shows a person with an arrow to a seat and it lights up when the seat
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Had a delightful young lady on my plane today. She boarded with huffs and sighs and general drama. She complained (in a manner which clearly showed she was patting herself on the back for being so helpful) about a slightly stretched out seat back pocket. She complained in the middle of the flight that she was very cold. I get that-- I hate being
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I pride myself on being pretty darn unflappable at work. 6'4" 65 year old man with full grown Santa style beard and sexy Santa mini skirt? Escorting high-as-a-kite drunk people off airplanes? Getting banana peels thrown at me? Yeah, whatevs. Just another day in the life. So perhaps I was just off my game today but I got seriously flapped by
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Thanks to everyone who voted in my passenger of the week poll! It was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again when I come across a pair of particularly awesome pax! Dancer Girl On Sugar High inched out Cheery Santa With Romance Novel by a single vote! So clearly, both were amazing. But the award goes to the wild-eyed, bee-bopping girl in 11D. :
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I found a big, ugly, disgusting brown spider in my galley today. I stared at it in frozen horror. Then enlisted one of my top-tier frequent fliers from the first row to smash it for me. /o\ Yes, I'm really that pathetically lame. *shudders* *shameface* /o
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