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OscartheGrouch 04-19-2012 05:17 PM

Here is the newest tool factor. If you are old and wrinkly with a hair dye procedure that doesn't match............you are a tool. Look and act your age. We had a knickname for one .......Disco Bob! His hair didn't even look like a natural color.

The Oscar

NuGuy 04-19-2012 05:18 PM


Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1172013)
Where was that?

We had a Crew Bus sideswipe a Porshe Boxster in ATL once. Car sat there for a couple of weeks.

Local strip mall. It wasn't even a tight spot. Just crunch, and keeps pulling in.

Hops out, hollering at herself, looks at the damage, and wanders off.

In retrospect, maybe she was looking for a piece of paper, so she could write her insurance and contact info, and leave it for the other driver,

Yea, that's the ticket....

Maybe I'm getting older, but it sure seems like there are more d-bags in the world today.

3 warning signs you are getting older (shamelessly cribbed from someone else):

1) You wake up hurting because "you slept wrong"
2) You use any compound that could be refered to as an "ointment"
3) The d-bag at the audio store says the reason your CD player sounds broken is because you listen to crappy music.


Nu

LNL76 04-19-2012 05:20 PM


Originally Posted by OscartheGrouch (Post 1172213)
Here is the newest tool factor. If you are old and wrinkly with a hair dye procedure that doesn't match............you are a tool. Look and act your age. We had a knickname for one .......Disco Bob! His hair didn't even look like a natural color.

The Oscar


Long live gray hair! :)

Timbo 04-19-2012 05:21 PM


Originally Posted by OscartheGrouch (Post 1172206)
My thought process on the FFDO program was anyone who applied in the first six months should be disqualified. Too eager and there has to be a mental issues involved in being too eager.:eek:

The Oscar


I've often felt the same! Thanks for bringing that up. It's like the old saying, "Any one who wants the job, isn't qualified to have it!"

acl65pilot 04-19-2012 05:23 PM


Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1172034)
My car has gotten scraped multiple times on the back left bumper with people pulling into parking spots there... plus a couple obvious crew bag drag marks with people squeezing by.

TOOL.

Don't park so close to the Bus Stop! :D

scambo1 04-19-2012 05:23 PM


Originally Posted by LNL76 (Post 1172218)
Long live gray hair! :)


Combovers w t f, get a haircut.

acl65pilot 04-19-2012 05:25 PM


Originally Posted by coflyr (Post 1172123)
Haha I'm loving this thread.

Now I know I can be a tool on the PA. Its normally on day 3 leg 4, and my mind starts drifting off somehwere else. Then I forget what I was saying so I usually wrap it up with a " once again welcome aboard ."

But the best I ever saw was the captain who for an entire month would do a very professional sounding PA, just to follow it up by repeating the WHOLE thing in Italian!!!! TOOL!!!


We have a few pilots that will do an English and then a LOD PA. (Language of Destination) Have had them done in Italian, German, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Sink r8 04-19-2012 05:33 PM

Guess if the flight was not to/from italy, the CA was a tool.

If the flight was to/from Italy, then I think coflyer accidentally tried to open a can of Tool on someone else, and spilled it on himself.

coflyr 04-19-2012 05:37 PM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1172226)
We have a few pilots that will do an English and then a LOD PA. (Language of Destination) Have had them done in Italian, German, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

That's understandable. But when you're flying an RJ in and out of Denver, and primarily to the plains states, I'd bet that no one on board would understand one word of Italian. Maybe "ciao" when he'd sign off. And now after the JB meltdown they'd all probably grab their bags and get off.

cfitstew 04-19-2012 05:46 PM


Originally Posted by OscartheGrouch (Post 1172213)
Here is the newest tool factor. If you are old and wrinkly with a hair dye procedure that doesn't match............you are a tool. Look and act your age. We had a knickname for one .......Disco Bob! His hair didn't even look like a natural color.

The Oscar

Yeah, but Disco Bob was a blast to fly with. One of the wildest overnights I ever had at SWA was at the Lighthouse with Disco Bob and Turkey Taylor and about 20 or so F/As (myself being the only hairy leg one there).


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