There was a (former NE) 727 Capt. up in BOS when I was a new hire who drove all the engineers nuts. About every 15 minutes, on a 3 hour leg, with good weather at the destination, he would turn around, study the fuel panel, rub his hands together, stamp his feet, rub his hands on his thighs, say something like, "Yes indeedy, yes in deed a roo. My oh My...How much Fuel we got?"

After about the 4th time he asked me, in one hour, I nearly took the metal log book out of the desk and smacked him over the head with it! His other favorite trick was to call mx up to the cockpit and argue with them about the radar test pattern not being right. With no weather forecast anywhere on our route, he nearly refused to take a jet once because he didn't like the test pattern, and that was on the old round green radars, which were about useless anyway!

To say this guy was a Nervous Nelly would be a huge understatement.

Then after the Western merger, the first Western Capt. to transfer into BOS was one of their "Peaches" who's initials were SB, if any of you Western guys know of him.

This clown would call up the dispatcher from the motel before pickup, ask him how much fuel he intended to put on the jet for his flight...and then tell the dispatcher, "Take some off, we don't need to be hauling all that fuel around!"

They are out there, but most of the real nut jobs retired a long time ago. And you wonder why Delta paid a shrink to interview us? These two guys were part of the reason!