"Pilots have girlfriends in every city they go to."

Screaming_Emu said:
I'm usually wondering "how do you not have to wear a helmet in public?"
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Dude. On my last 4 day, we had a newb and 3 year veteran. The newb was forward. Pushing back before engine start on day 3, we here this violent, repetive slamming from the forward jumpseat. Finally, after a minute, they ding us:
"The jumpseat is broken!"
So I open the door, go back there and try to lock the seat in. No dice. I then proceeded to visually inspect the two pins then slide into the door frame. Oh look, a seatbelt tail is covering the bottom pin, preventing it from sliding all the way into position and thus, locking.

I brush the seatbelt out of the way and, bingo, it locks. I turn around and see a bunch of pax like "Seriously? You're leaving us here with these broads?"
 
Cal Goat said:
Dude. On my last 4 day, we had a newb and 3 year veteran. The newb was forward. Pushing back before engine start on day 3, we here this violent, repetive slamming from the forward jumpseat. Finally, after a minute, they ding us:
"The jumpseat is broken!"
So I open the door, go back there and try to lock the seat in. No dice. I then proceeded to visually inspect the two pins then slide into the door frame. Oh look, a seatbelt tail is covering the bottom pin, preventing it from sliding all the way into position and thus, locking.

I brush the seatbelt out of the way and, bingo, it locks. I turn around and see a bunch of pax like "Seriously? You're leaving us here with these broads?"
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We do have a lot of good ones. But there are some that, despite being grown middle aged adults, just don't function very well in the world.

Stuff like opening the door to find out someone is in your hotel room, then they turn to me and ask "what do I do?" with the door still opened.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
We do have a lot of good ones. But there are some that, despite being grown middle aged adults, just don't function very well in the world.

Stuff like opening the door to find out someone is in your hotel room, then they turn to me and ask "what do I do?" with the door still opened.
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LOL. I like our group of FAs. They are all pretty cool.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
We do have a lot of good ones. But there are some that, despite being grown middle aged adults, just don't function very well in the world.

Stuff like opening the door to find out someone is in your hotel room, then they turn to me and ask "what do I do?" with the door still opened.
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Oh yeah, we get a lot of middle aged women who just wound up in this job very coincidentally. Like, they couldn't fit in with regular society for one reason or another so wound up serving drinks at 30,000'.

That said, we also have a lot of really awesome folks who I truly admire and enjoy working with regardless of whether or not I find them sexually attractive.
 
I'm always highly amused by the complaining by folks who get cheated on by the person they were cheating with.

I'm not the morality police or anything. Go get your whatever on however. But sheesh, this is just common sense.

Chances are those who style themselves as playahs, are more than likely dressed in shorts, white sneakers, a polo that was out of fashion 10 years ago, a Member's Only jacket, and probably still rockin' a flip phone and combover.

Of course, if you listen to me, you're listening to a 40 something single dude on teh intrawebz talking about dating, so you deserve what's coming.

Richman
 
Pachong said:
This is what I hear from just about every girl I've been out with the second after they find out I'm a pilot. Now, maybe I'm doing this all wrong but with my average overnight being somewhere around 16 hours. Where the heck do women get the idea that I'm spending a good portion of that time not asleep and out on the town or more likely in some dive bar near the airport Hilton? Is this idea coming from the golden days when there were better/longer overnights? Do I just have zero game? Are women being insecure maniacs? The whole idea just seems like a logistical nightmare and not even worth it to me. Anyway, maybe I'm not the only one that hears this. Anyone else?
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Bro. It's not just you.
 
Cal Goat said:
As a married man, I'd only say that if you're single you don't have a girlfriend in every city, you're wasting an amazing opportunity.

That, or fooling around with some of the prettier FAs.
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I'm single, I think halfway good looking, and overall not bad with women. I generally don't screw around on overnights because I'm not a dick. Anytime I have, there have been feelings hurt in some way, or the girl felt like I was leading her on. It's fun at the time, but I have ethical conflicts afterward. I'm definitely not programmed to be a womanizer, and that's fine by me.
 
dasleben said:
I'm single, I think halfway good looking, and overall not bad with women. I generally don't screw around on overnights because I'm not a dick. Anytime I have, there have been feelings hurt in some way, or the girl felt like I was leading her on. It's fun at the time, but I have ethical conflicts afterward. I'm definitely not programmed to be a womanizer, and that's fine by me.
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I am in 100% agreement with you. That said, in my bachelor days, I did occasionally wander into situations of a similar risk.

The tough part is finding yourself in that situation where you are indeed sexually attracted to a person and your personatiss click, if only by assistance from alcohol and/or loneliness. Sometimes our judgement is clouded by our genitals.

I am not an advocate of womanizing or even worse, "pick up artists". My MO was to happen upon a person I genuinely was attracted to and got along with, and enjoy their company as much as we mutually could. Often there comes a point where one person has more expectations than the other, and that's where feelings can get hurt.

But, in essence, isn't that the nature of every relationship we have until we find our life partner? Some relationships just last longer than others before we discover the deal breakers.
 
A couple of months ago, while enjoying my free happy hour beer in the hotel, a woman sat down on my table and said hi. I of course politely responded hi back like I was expecting her to be there, desperately trying to figure out in my mind whether she was my flight attendant, since I couldn't remember what she looked like. She said I looked bored and wanted to come over and sit with me, where she eventually pointed to a table of two other women and said they were in town for a work convention and was wanting to have some "fun" tonight. I laughed and said "naw, I'm tired and I have to get up early tomorrow". I think she was in shock that I turned down a foursome because I would rather sleep.

Of course, I'm the guy who in high school turned down an invitation to go to homecoming by a chick because I was tired and wanted to take a nap.

I take my sleep seriously.
 
CFIscare said:
A couple of months ago, while enjoying my free happy hour beer in the hotel, a woman sat down on my table and said hi. I of course politely responded hi back like I was expecting her to be there, desperately trying to figure out in my mind whether she was my flight attendant, since I couldn't remember what she looked like. She said I looked bored and wanted to come over and sit with me, where she eventually pointed to a table of two other women and said they were in town for a work convention and was wanting to have some "fun" tonight. I laughed and said "naw, I'm tires and I have to get up early tomorrow". I think she was in shock that I turned down a foursome because I would rather sleep.

Of course, I'm the guy who in high school who turned down an invitation to go to homecoming by a chick because I was tired and wanted to take a nap.

I take my sleep seriously.
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CFIscare said:
A couple of months ago, while enjoying my free happy hour beer in the hotel, a woman sat down on my table and said hi. I of course politely responded hi back like I was expecting her to be there, desperately trying to figure out in my mind whether she was my flight attendant, since I couldn't remember what she looked like. She said I looked bored and wanted to come over and sit with me, where she eventually pointed to a table of two other women and said they were in town for a work convention and was wanting to have some "fun" tonight. I laughed and said "naw, I'm tired and I have to get up early tomorrow". I think she was in shock that I turned down a foursome because I would rather sleep.

Of course, I'm the guy who in high school turned down an invitation to go to homecoming by a chick because I was tired and wanted to take a nap.

I take my sleep seriously.
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Got some good advice from a Captain very early on in this profession. He said, "you know what they say about guys who date flight attendants?

They're just to lazy to (euphemism for being master of your own domain)"
 
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