I had a bad dream last night.....


In it was the FAA, crew scheduling, bad schedules, bad management, self-serving union, unserviceable aircraft equipment, changing weather, no extra holding fuel, ever-changing procedures, endless flight manual revisions, dead heading in the middle seat, broken and lost luggage, nasty passenger agents, crabby old 170 lb. flight attendants that were 4 axe-handles wide, all-nighters, foreign countries, sleep deprivation, mergers, seniority squabbles, company threats, food poisoning, no food, bad coffee, bidding, pulled away from my family for weeks at a time, fleabag hotels, late cabs and maniac cab drivers, bidding vacation, waiting for gates, weather, low visibility approaches, aircraft de-icing, PCs, Gestapo check airman, medicals, commuting to and from work in unspeakable weather, the parking lot from Hell, parking lot buses, inter-terminal busses, spring break, Christmas rush, Easter rush, PA announcements, insurance, drug and alcohol testing, noise violations, customs lineups, dry cleaning, terrorism, security passes, rude security personnel, high gas/oil prices, pay cuts, rush hour traffic, that infernal alarm clock, crash pads, catching cold away from home, lackadaisical crew members, sexual harassment threats, flight attendants and co-pilots implying that they are a gift to aviation after being there three years, back biting, gossip, cell phones, aircraft cram courses, plus laying my job on the line several times a year with simulators, endless procedural memorization and Annual Recurrent Training days.

Then I woke up.....
...... and joyously found myself still retired!


Whew!!!

 

I had a bad dream too...

I was eating dinner at 4pm, having problems with my left knee, taking pills before and after meals to stay alive, going to church just to be safe for when i do die, sleeping with a 65 year old woman about 6 axe handles wide, completing 1500 piece jigsaw puzzles, playing dominoes, flirting with that 20 something waitress who then told her coworkers about the creep in booth 8, setting up my next doctor's appointment, forgetting to go to my appointments, getting gouged by salesmen everywhere I go, driving a lincoln town-car, doing 2 under the speed-limit and STILL POSTING ON MY OLD INDUSTRY FORUMS WHEN I SHOULD BE OUT FISHING!

Good post though

 

And now, thanks to the age-65 rule, you can have both bad dreams at the same time!