Picked up a mx ferry with a DH home for some bonus pay. Show up at the airport wearing jeans and a hoodie and call ops to find out where the plane is. It's at a gate, not the mx hangar or remote parking. Weird. Go over to the gate, seems a little crowded. Weird. Get down to the jet and there's a FA in the galley. Weird. Turns out an earlier flight had cancelled so they turned our ferry into a live flight and never bothered to tell the pilots. Definitely got some weird looks from the pax but it was around the holidays and everyone was just happy to get where they were going.

Ha Ha! No cares given!!

I had a pair of brown shoes once that were the same style as my black shoes. Well at zero dark thirty you guessed it, grabbed the wrong pair from under the bed. I get to work and jump out of the car.. WTH?? Mind racing I conjure up a plan with a giant black permanent marker involved, the kind they leave in the crewroom for comat.
I was sitting in the flightdeck all smug because my crises was diverted with nobody noticing when the F.O. says, hey whats that weird smell??
I say yea uh.. I don't smell it.
Toolish but..he he. I tossed those shoes the next day and went shopping on the layover!

I had a Captain with almost the exact same story, only difference was he had a can of black spray paint just laying around in the back of his truck when he realized it. I wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't told me the story. I had asked "so how was the commute in this morning?", followed by "funny you should ask!"

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That's cool and he looked cool.

Once of the gate, who tells their passengers "Air Traffic Control gave us a wheels up time of 12:13PM ZULU"?!?! Direct quote.

This was at 7:50am lcl so that wheels up time was at 8:13am, nothing terrible. But by saying noon everyone immediately looked at the poor commuting pilot in that back for answers. Yay me.

Way to go crew.

Not really toolish, --it happens, move on.

Kind of toolish. In the US Zulu is 4-8 hours ahead of local, so that could lead folks to think they're going to be very late. Even if you specify Zulu Time, 99% have utterly no idea what you're talking about.

No such thing as AM & PM for UTC.

It's not really toolish, but some of us could do better at speaking in layman's terms when making PA's. It's like telling the pax we just leveled off at flight level 340...most don't know what that is.

Someone once told me a true sign of intelligence is being able to speak to someone about something they know nothing about, without them feeling like you're dumbing it down for them, and without them feeling clueless.

Yes.
A waste of time talking to others outside the profession using nothing but the profession’s slang/designated terms. People tune you out real fast and the terms mean nothing to them. Works like that in any profession.