Don't forget: High-Speed High-Altitude High-Pressure Aluminum Tube Operator......BTW Saab....sorry to hear about your dog man.....my wife always wonders who I am more excited to see when I get home...her or the dog. I tell her that when she can wag her tail and get that excited then maybe she would be #1!

A friend of mine flying for a regional told me a story of a conversation he, the FO and FA had in a local watering hole on a 30 hour layover. They told the friendly people at the next table they were in town for the Geico convention, and had a great talk about insurance.
Guess who was riding the back of the RJ when the crew left town the next afternoon?>>>>>

My favorite response to "how long have you been flying?" is "today's my first day, but the captain's been here almost three weeks."

Great thread....

I've been:

A crosswalk painter
In the aluminum tubing business (an old standard, naturally)
A piano player at a burlesque house

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Often I have renters who are students in the local flight program. Occasionally they might see an aviation sticker on my truck and ask why I am now a landlord.

The look on their faces after I tell them what I made as a pilot and how I do now is priceless.

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I should just say that.

The Korean lady at my dry cleaners said to me once, "I didn't know UPS has airplanes?"
I said, "Yeah, how do you think packages get from Asia to the states in one day?" Then the light bulb went on. She's like "oh yeah!" Too funny.

LOL! That's a good one! :D

So how much DO you make now? I'm just being nosy.

Wait a minute- you mean Copilots can fly????? Boy, am I going to have a talk with these lazy buggers when I get to work tomorrow!

Crap.. they're on to us!

I think I'm gonna stop giving them 50% of my pay!!