Slipped through the cracks again.

KLB said:
Well I see you're turning more and more pansy! Next I'll see you complaining how the coffee's not your favorite brand and the cookies aren't warm in the FBO. Traitor!
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Well, it's not and they aren't. Look, I understand that the Little People have challenges in life, too. But I take umbrage when they fail to meet my very reasonable expectations. Like the crew van pulling up to the curb as I step off the plane. Honestly, is this too much to ask? I'm an Important Person now...I'm a Sky Commander. It's simply the Natural Order of things for some peasant to be ready to shuttle me to wherever I want to go most ricky-tick. If they show up early and are obsequious in bowing to my ridiculous requests, I might even be open-handed enough to throw them a couple of greenbacks. But woe betide the peon who fails me. Yay, verily shalt I grumble mercilessly and lift my own bags. Respect my Authoritay, serfs!


Congrats dude! You deserve it!:D
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In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood, "deserve's got nuthin to do with it". ;)

And thanks again, all. Don't blink or it'll once again be me begging anyone who will listen for a yob. But for now, it feels pretty good. I like to think of the rare successes as just fuel for the inevitable sense of entitlement and ill-usage all true Old Pilots develop. Usage: "I shoulda been at Delta by now, if not for (insert evil happenstance of Fate).

In the meantime, I appreciate y'all sharing my (transitory) happiness at Fortune smiling, for once. I hope I get a chance to share yours sometime soon.
 
CDNPilotDave said:
... and the dream lives on, vicariously as it may be. May your happiness continue.
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If there's a lesson here, dude, it's that even the dimmest bulb in the box can stumble its way through something vaguely approximating a Life in this ludicrous industry. Your ship will come in, even if you are a Cannuckistanian. Probably just temporarily mired in ice and boatloads of Asian immigrants. ;)
 
Like a "he ho", I'll just keep plugging away. BTW, what is the term for a Cannuckistanian with a United States Passport?
 
CDNPilotDave said:
what is the term for a Cannuckistanian with a United States Passport?
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TRAITOR!? I kid. I'm thinking "opportunist"? I kid again. The term is probably "dude who wants to fly for a living and talks kind of funny". To be fair, for all of the faults of the Great White North, they seem to me to be real nice people who are at once entranced and embarrassed by the ludicrous Spectacle of their southern neighbor. Which is, coincidentally, pretty much how I feel. Course, if I were you, I'd be working my frost-bitten fingers to the bone trying to get some JAR licenses from the Commonwealth. This ship of Fools is sinking.
 
Boris Badenov said:
TRAITOR!? I kid. I'm thinking "opportunist"? I kid again. The term is probably "dude who wants to fly for a living and talks kind of funny". To be fair, for all of the faults of the Great White North, they seem to me to be real nice people who are at once entranced and embarrassed by the ludicrous Spectacle of their southern neighbor. Which is, coincidentally, pretty much how I feel. Course, if I were you, I'd be working my frost-bitten fingers to the bone trying to get some JAR licenses from the Commonwealth. This ship of Fools is sinking.
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A laugh (out loud and everything) like that I haven't had before. Thanks!!!! Last I heard the Commonwealth turned their backs on Canada. When I inquired I was ineligible for an EU passport. Transitively I figured Canada-UK-EU. Would have opened up a lot of opportunistic avenues. Unfortunately, negative. (These frost bitten fingers left Alberta in 1990 for the west coast then south to CA in '97. I have a psychological allergy to snow and cold.)
 
Congrats. Now you just need a bitching FO brief. Here was mine. Close your eyes, everything you see is yours. Now open them, everything you see is mine.
 
greaper007 said:
Congrats. Now you just need a bitching FO brief. Here was mine. Close your eyes, everything you see is yours. Now open them, everything you see is mine.
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One-eye-open and reeling on the day off, I saw this and it occurred to me to give credit where it's due. I've used this since (in jest, of course! Or...well, in jest, of course!) and I cannot suppress a laugh every time I read it, let alone say it. Excellent.
 
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