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08-23-2013, 02:30 PM
#4481
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,919
Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Clothing disasters...
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
08-23-2013, 02:42 PM
#4482
Looking for a laugh
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 4,099
Originally Posted by DeadHead
While walking around with my fly down all day was somewhat unsettling, the extra ventilating breeze was surprisingly refreshing. I mean its no Gold Bond, but refreshing none the less.
08-23-2013, 03:04 PM
#4483
Junior Senior
Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: Whiskey Papa
Posts: 2,850
Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Clothing disasters...
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
etc.) It's nice to be able to handle just about anything Murphy's Law throws at you and help a fellow crew member out...
08-23-2013, 04:23 PM
#4484
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: MD-11 FO
Posts: 2,180
Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Clothing disasters...
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
08-25-2013, 01:24 PM
#4487
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 478
Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Clothing disasters...
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
08-25-2013, 03:14 PM
#4488
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,838
Originally Posted by ForeverFO
Clothing disasters...
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
On my first trip off IOE as a new hire, I squatted to check tire pressure and <riiiip> goes the seat of my pants. My tighty whiteys are blazing forth in glory.
With thirty minutes to go, I mooched one of those hotel sewing kits off the #1 and locked myself in the lav. I sewed frantically while people were boarding 12 inches away on the other side of the lav door.
Total success... except for the scrunched seam with black thread over blue in a hideous frankenstein pattern on my rear. Fortunately, my jacket tails were long enough to hide it.
I never fly without all those hotel freebies, like the sewing kit. Plus, I have a mini first aid kit and OTC drug store in my suitcase. Nothing like a nasty splinter, a cut, muscle spasms, congestion, etc to wreck a layover.
Originally Posted by DeadHead
I recently broke my zipper mid trip. The zipper first got jammed, so I pulled it and it broke. While walking around with my fly down all day was somewhat unsettling, the extra ventilating breeze was surprisingly refreshing. I mean its no Gold Bond, but refreshing none the less.
Originally Posted by EMBFlyer
Had something similar happen. 15 minutes before van time at 5:00 am, I tore the inseam to my pants from about 3 or so inches above the knee to about 3 above the ankle. I ran downstairs and got a sewing kit and did a crummy patch job. I didn't move out of the seat pretty much all day for fear I'd rip the patch job. I now fly with a spare pair of pants.
Duct Tape.
It can hem pants, hold your fly closed, and even mend an unfortunate tear.
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