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Old 01-12-2014, 08:31 AM
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Cardiomd, you will have to ignore the rhetoric, I think we are all just jealous of the paycheck we imagine you are making compared to ours
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Old 01-12-2014, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cactusmike View Post
Used to fly with a guy who would tell chicks he was a gynecologist. I would tell them I was a forest ranger. One night we are out in a bar in MSP and this guy hears us talking and tells us that he was, in fact a box doctor but he would say he was a pilot. They exchanged cards.

On a ELP layover the whole crew was having beverages in the bar at happy hour. Some guys came up and asked us what we were doing in ELP. We told them we were engineers getting ready to build a subway around ELP. They believed it and were very enthusiastic about the idea. Of course, looking back on it, they may have been thinking we were building it for the import market.
It was my birthday in TLH on an overnight, long story short we went out and came back with company. The next morning my new roomate saw my uniform out and said "so you're a pilot?" My response "yeah?" "Last night you told me you were a flight attendant." Still to this day I'm not sure how that worked.
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Old 01-12-2014, 04:14 PM
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Tool of the day "honorable mention"....

Hotel receptionists who insist on putting the CA and FO in rooms right next to each other (bonus points if the rooms are adjoined only by a paper thin "suite" door).

To the Receptionists:

We spend 16 hours a day within 3 feet of each other.

Really, it's really, really okay if we're on different floors.

Really. It's okay.
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Old 01-12-2014, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8 View Post
Another DAL-centric nomination, NE division thereof:

The person that purchased the black chairs in the JFK lounge,

and,

The person that's failing to rectify the first tool's mistake.


Over.


YOU<--- ARE CORRECT, SIR!!!

(The chairs mentioned are built for children or veery short people.)
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Old 01-12-2014, 04:27 PM
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That probably has more to do with the odd checkout times we have. Since incoming pilot crews almost always leave at the same time I imagine it makes it easier for the cleaning crew.
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ImTumbleweed View Post
Tool of the day "honorable mention"....

Hotel receptionists who insist on putting the CA and FO in rooms right next to each other (bonus points if the rooms are adjoined only by a paper thin "suite" door)..
It may not be up to them. Your airline may have a block of rooms and they keep putting you in the same rooms. I'd worry more about what the person who had the room before you was up to.
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ImTumbleweed View Post
Tool of the day "honorable mention"....

Hotel receptionists who insist on putting the CA and FO in rooms right next to each other (bonus points if the rooms are adjoined only by a paper thin "suite" door).

To the Receptionists:

We spend 16 hours a day within 3 feet of each other.

Really, it's really, really okay if we're on different floors.

Really. It's okay.
You're not sleeping in the same room nor have to talk with each other.. this goes way up on my "I just don't care" list!
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:40 PM
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Most of our hotels put us in the same area. Much better than non-crew members who have different schedules than us and who can be very noisy and inconsiderate, either by themselves or with their rugrats....
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:54 PM
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I love when they put me in a room with conjoined doors right next to a F/A. I get to listen to them chat away on skype until the wee hours of the morning, hack up a lung from all the cigs, or wake up to their Beyonce ringtone a half hour before my alarm so they can take their hour to get ready.
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramprat View Post
I love when they put me in a room with conjoined doors right next to a F/A. I get to listen to them chat away on skype until the wee hours of the morning, hack up a lung from all the cigs, or wake up to their Beyonce ringtone a half hour before my alarm so they can take their hour to get ready.
ONLY an hour to get ready? It takes me an hour and a half, two if I want to do it slowly....
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