Strange Day!

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Well, that'll teach ya to answer your phone! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I normally don't! I don't know what enticed me to answer the telephone.

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So what kind of pre-flight was this guy doing anyway?

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I don't know. I spent the entire turn trying to figure out where it happened. No one knew where but everyone kept saying 'Boy, that kid was bleeding somefin' fierce!'

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You mean a WHOLE sandwich and a WHOLE can of diet coke. Man, you guys are livin' the good life! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I'm lucky if they show up and put a half bag of ice in our coolers for the water bottles! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cwm27.gif

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He had purchased himself lunch from the Wall Street Deli and I guess left it there by accident. But I guess if I was bleeding like a stuck pig (as they say in these parts), I'd probably leave it behind too!
 
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Too bad you didn't get to overnight in DCA. The Crystal City restaurant would have been a good way to relax, huh?

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I can watch old ladies dance around in their skivvies down at the bingo hall for free! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Hey it coulda been worse ... you could have had to actually go to St. Louis and layover! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

(I can make fun of it becasue it's "home.")
 
My flight instructor had a significant portion of his thumb cut off by 'heavy equipment' out on the field during the winter few years back. He told me that he picked up his thumb, packed it in snow, and drove straight to the hospital...

Long story short, the doctor successfully attached the thumb back, and he has most of his 'feeling'/nerve back... it's 90% normal.

Thanks to the technological medical advances, doctors are able to do stuff like that! Hopefully, that F/O kept his finger cooled (ice or something) and went straight to the hospital !


On a side note, machine severing fingers/thumbs is much easy to re-attach in surgery than fingers severed, by say, an animal. There is much more shearing involved of the flesh, nerves, and even bones in that situation, as opposed to ( I know this sounds disgusting) a 'clean cut' right through your finger by some kind of machinery.
 
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See, all of the really good stuff you won't see on "Airline" on cable. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif That show is so dumbed-down and "made friendly for marketing purposes" it's almost criminal.

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The reason is doug a camera crew couldnt hang with us!
 
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The reason is doug a camera crew couldnt hang with us!

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True. Most people probably couldn't handle the 'real stuff'. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Have you noticed at your airline how passengers have upped the "Drama Queen" quotient? I'd almost like to put a sign up in the gate area that reads "There is no film crew, chill out, your inability to get upgraded to first class is not a Shakespearean tragedy".
 
I defenitly have noticed that doug. To many people are watching and then acting it out. I had gone in to get the paper work about 3 weeks ago to find that a passenger was yelling at a gate agent. She wastn served alcohol onboard but the FA suspected she had it in her bottle after she heard what was happening. But anyways, I walked up on this happening, and she was giving the script to the guy b/c she was allowed back on the jet way to go get her bag, CHECKED bag. But claimed discrimination, and everything else in the world (she was white, agent black). I was close to saying "There is not camera's around so chill, but I just walked away instead, got my paperwork, and walked back out, not my fight!".

Im sure the end result was something like, Sup called... "Whats the problem"..."He wont let me get my bag" "go to baggage claim, its policy".."Oh, I didnt know, can i get a free ticket since he was rude"?
 
I'm so glad I fly boxes...

The most exciting thing that happened to me so far today is I spilled my corn flakes and milk on my new white shirt and brown pants.
 
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I defenitly have noticed that doug. To many people are watching and then acting it out. I had gone in to get the paper work about 3 weeks ago to find that a passenger was yelling at a gate agent. She wastn served alcohol onboard but the FA suspected she had it in her bottle after she heard what was happening. But anyways, I walked up on this happening, and she was giving the script to the guy b/c she was allowed back on the jet way to go get her bag, CHECKED bag. But claimed discrimination, and everything else in the world (she was white, agent black). I was close to saying "There is not camera's around so chill, but I just walked away instead, got my paperwork, and walked back out, not my fight!".

Im sure the end result was something like, Sup called... "Whats the problem"..."He wont let me get my bag" "go to baggage claim, its policy".."Oh, I didnt know, can i get a free ticket since he was rude"?

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Ah, dealing with the general public... No thanks... That's what you get when you sell a seat to any yahoo who can cough up $129... uugghh...
 
And THEN that yahoo is pissed because he's paying a "whopping" $129 to fly from JFK to SFO.

Meanwhile, Greyhound costs more to ride and people stand in line for a $4.25 coffee and a $2 bottle of filtered tap water with a fancy name.

The general public kills me.
 
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and a $2 bottle of filtered tap water with a fancy name.


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Was it on sale half price?
 
Full price, but it was given then name "Discount Water" so people felt smart purchasing it.
 
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Ah, dealing with the general public... No thanks... That's what you get when you sell a seat to any yahoo who can cough up $129... uugghh...

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Forgot what it's like to be a regular joe, huh?

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$129 wouldn't buy an Xbox.

But people want to fly a $40,000,000 jet at mach .79 flying at 39,000 feet with five professional crewmembers for less than $100. Heck, Greyhound's more than that! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I get my junk in the cockpit and there's a full sandwich, a diet coke and no captain.

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"...so the sandwich and coke made a quick entry into my flight kit before anyone else noticed." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


So how'd the dude chop his finger off? Enquiring minds want to know!
 
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Well, that'll teach ya to answer your phone! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I normally don't! I don't know what enticed me to answer the telephone.

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Ummm don't you get in serious trouble if you don't answer the phone when crew scheduling calls you.

I have several friends who are DL flight attendant from my days back in CVG as a ramp rat.

They told me that if CS calls you,you have to answer the phone or page and if you don't you have like 15-20 mins. to call back or you get severely reprimanded and possibly written up.

Even possibly terminated if this is a regular occurance.


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So how'd the dude chop his finger off? Enquiring minds want to know!

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No idea! I'd hate to look up the poor kid in the company computer and ask "So, how'd ya do it?" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
<in best Ben Stiller voice from "Starsky & Hutch">

"Do it..... do it!!


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Ummm don't you get in serious trouble if you don't answer the phone when crew scheduling calls you.


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I'm a regular line holder with no contractual obligation to answer crew scheduling's telephone call.
 
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Ah, dealing with the general public... No thanks... That's what you get when you sell a seat to any yahoo who can cough up $129... uugghh...

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Forgot what it's like to be a regular joe, huh?

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Nope... I ride the airlines at least twice a year (going to school every six months for recurrent training plus any personal vacations that we decide to take and fly to)... Hate every minute of the flight... Crowded, noisy, smelly and the service stinks, also about 1/2 the time I end up getting a cold within a day or so of the flight because some yahoo in 21C is sick as a dog and sneezing and coughing everywhere, not to mention looks like he hasn't showered in 3 weeks... (gotta love that recirculated cabin air!)

Unfortunately sometimes riding the airlines is a necessary evil...
 
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