Originally Posted by
Anthrax
This is hearsay, your honor, and inadmissible in this fine forum. But since you went there, girlfriend, perhaps they weren't grimaces at all, but the sun or a glint in their eyes? Perhaps one had gas, and the other reacted in kind? Perhaps your son has a rather charming speech impediment, and when he said, "Korean Air," it sounded like, "Kowweeeen Aour." Perhaps it was your son who grimaced, wishing that his father was more like those studly fedex pilots with ALPA pins and hats? Perhaps he was mistaken, and they weren't fedex pilots at all but those other trash haulers at Brown? Perhaps perhaps perhaps. So please, unless you're a fedex pilot, don't crap on us. The same reason why your can't tell a joke about the Pope unless you're catholic.
No they were grimaces. As a professional pilot for over ten years now I have learned one thing. The vast majority of pilots I have met and interacted with have a chip on their shoulder or have some sort of superiority complex. I learned this the hard way when I tried to strike up a conversation with some Continental captain many years ago. He thought his excrement smelled like Chanel #5 and let me know under no uncertain terms he was too good to waste his time talking to me. Whatever happened to just being decent? Most of these guys get into flying due to an inferiority complex or maybe a small penis. Keeping that in mind that pretty much explains the less than admirable behavior and lack of class some of these clowns have. Just sayin.