Nah, too much work.
All I was looking for when cutting wires, was to sleep of bad hangovers.
When the rag-heads starts praying @ 0400 in the morning it sounds like a cow being raped, then they run that sh!t through amplifiers and blast it through the neighborhood with roof-top speakers.
After cutting the wires a few times and they had spliced them together, I finally ran down the stairs and stormed into the mosque asking where the mullah was? Found him and told him to shut that noise off yelling into his face.
It took a while for the people to grasp what this infidel was taking about, then they got angry and started circling me yelling that this is our country and we do as we want. Told them I lived here too and was sick and tired of the f.... noise.
Then I stormed out of there and up to my apartment before they had a chance to stop me and call the cops.
The building I lived in was 15 feet from the speakers and we were about 10-12 pilots living there in 5-6 apartments so they did not know who I was. (We all looked the same to them)
After this episode we found it best to move across town as the local's attitude had changed. The new apartments were better anyways, 3 bedrooms with a maid's quarter and far away from the nearest mosque.
Also close to the beach, but dangerous to walk there due to land mines left after the Gulf war the year before.
Lots of boredom in Kuwait however, sitting reserve while the good trips go to the locals.
In the winter however when New York got blizzards and cold weather, we ex-pats got all the NY trips we wanted.
Most of the time it was Cairo turns and Bombay lay-overs with an occasional London and Paris.
Best of all was the 3 day Bangkok for good reason. All the above trips were good for smuggling a bottle of booze back.
Some guys got caught, I never did.
Would hover around the arrival area until a crew headed for customs and if the Captain on that crew had a long beard, I would tag along behind them. Long beards never got checked because long beards are super religious, nor would the custom guys dare to stop a a crewmember following a long beard. Problem solved, half of the local pilots had long beards..

 

I see a best seller there when you have the time.

 

You rock Sky4Me. Time to come home.

 

Aye, have plenty flying stories from my 19 jobs, but if I wrote a book
I would get arrested, hand-cuffed and would loose my tickets from 4 different Nations.
Better stay low key and shut up.
Retired from AA this year at 58, burned out. Let the junior guy have my seat.
Bon Voyage.

 

Only if I can land interview invite from back home but with your best wishes I might be home soon.

 

Sky4Me,

I hope that you get your wish soon to land a job with a major airline in the U.S.

Are they still recruiting for the 777 over there?

Best Regards

 

Post of the year!
I want to read the book as well.

 

No book.
If I told it all, and put my name on the book, game over.
Been getting away with a lot of stuff in 37 years of flying and now
Retired this year in one piece.
No book.

 

How about regular anonymous posts on here about your adventures. Or how about a ghost writer or a pen name? Don't leave us hanging!

 

Yes, I am