Sluggo_63

This guy...

Having fun strutting up and down the sideline of my son's soccer match? Trying to impress all the high school freshmen? Tool...

BTpilot

hahahahah no way

Cruise

Wow......yep, that definitely qualifies as major toolbag.

tsquared030

So if you had the choice to attend your son's game, but had to wear your uniform due to timing, you'd skip the game?
He may be TOTD material to you, but I imagine he's DadOTD to his kid...or not, tough to tell with teenagers. :-)

gloopy

Yeah but all we're talking about here is removing the eps and tie. Who wouldn't take 5 seconds to do that?

Sink r8

You'd have to think that it has a chance of impressing anyone to consider it a tool move. But over the years, the novelty of having a uniform mostly wears off, and you stop going to bars with white scarves (yes, we had a guy at my former airline that did this). Besides, you can't see a thing with Ray-Ban Aviators in the dark.

For full disclosure, I must be the rare pilot that likes nothing more than to come back from a trip, and "have to" pick up one of the kids. That's because when I do it, I look like a B-A M-F. The shirt hides my drooping gutt, and I'm actually giving serious thought to covering the receding hairline with the hat, but that would definitely not work. At any rate, there is usually some MILF that says "look at you, with your uniform!", and I can get over the fact that they sometimes snort as they say it. Bottom line: they want me. Well, not all of them, but the fat one in the corner does...

So it comes down to this: when I do it, I'm a B-A M-F, and when anyone else does it, they're a tool. That's how these things work. It's made more complicated by the fact a lot of us do it, all of us simultaneously B-A, M-F's, and tools. This conflict never comes to a head unless two of us do it in the same place at the same time, or, worse, some total TOTD gets jealous and puts up a picture of it on the web.

Admit it: you're just jealous this guy is doing it on your turf, during your time to uniform it up... tool.

gearcrankr

I have seen that tool any many like him at Target, Menards, Home Depot and even the local gun range. Take 5 seconds and remove your badge , epps and tie. I dont even pump gas wearing that stuff.

Sluggo_63

I actually thought of this... guy probably wasn't old enough to have a high school freshman (maybe he's an older brother). But... he wasn't really paying attention to the game. Just walking down the sideline one way... standing for a minute... then walking down the other way.

I have attended my kid's sporting events in uniform. Getting ready to go on a trip or just getting back from a trip. With my tie and epaulets off. I've even gone in my flightsuit if I'm rushing back from a flight at the guard. It's tough disguising that, so I just hunker down in my chair and try to look inconspicuous...

Sluggo_63

You're right... I actually tried to run back to my car to get my epaulets and necktie to throw on so I could usurp some of the attention he was getting, but my wife had the keys to our minivan in her purse, and I didn't want to go rooting around in it and not look like the BAMF that I (you now, you) know I am. I just had to settle for calling attention to the FlightSafety polo shirt and Higher Power 737 hat that I was already wearing.

Sink r8

There you go! I've noticed all sort of different designs for "Boeing" hats over the years. I assume the previous models sold out, and I'm pretty sure they're not going to CPA's and waitresses.

I was at the Y last week, and the minivan parked across from me had this license plate: "MS PILOT". As I backed away (alas, in the very same model minivan, same color... blue of course), I couldn't help but wonder if some tool-bag already got "MR PILOT".

Long story short... DMV says it's not available.
And "VAN ADMRL" is not available either.
"2BREASTD" couldn't pass the software.

I'm on the waiting list for either "MR PILOT" or "MJOR TUL", but there already are twelve SWA pilots ahead of me for "MR PILOT". And twenty-five for "I KL KTNS".