F-F, two F's, as in French Fries..

Sorry its been a couple of days, I've actually had some really great passengers recently! My last trip, on our last leg ATL-LGA (which is usually HELL with wings!) had some of the nicest people on board! I even got a fabulous compliment by a couple in the exit row.. that I had a wonderful persona and I should keep up the good work :-). I was really just excited about being done with my trip at noon and getting to nap for a few hours in my bed!! (mm...naps...i love naps)

So, since I haven;t had any really crazy events happen lately (no complaining from me!), I'll share my story of how I tried to take out some of my first class passengers tonight:

Soooo...the trip I am currently on I have the position of Flight Leader (basically I'm "in charge", get paid a little bit extra, and take care of the first class cabin). On our first flight from LGA to ATL I had to serve a meal. As we were still climbing, I decided to start to set up my galley for our service. In the first class cabin of our plane tonight, our beverage carts are half carts (mini carts, 2 fit in one regular slot) and i pulled the first one out and set it up. As I was doing this the pilots turned the plane up a bit and the 2nd cart went flying out of the galley and into the aisle!
Luckily, I have some cat like reflexes (thank you red bull!!!) and I grabbed the cart by the handle just as it ran into the armrest of my first class passenger seated at 2C. I was so embarrased and it woke everyone up in the first class cabin :-/ I returned the cart, latched it, and then immediately sat down in my jumpseat until the seat belt sign was turned off. lol.

Oh man, I felt stupid. But then it seemed everyone forgot about it later.

Sorry this post totally stunk...I'm tired and its 130am. But I felt i needed to write SOMETHING.

oh.. PS..I picked up a 25 hour layover in San Fran...and my BFF is working :( boooo

Fat people like to fly too..

Hola!

So I recently picked up a trip with some Atlanta based Flight Attendants with a wonderful long layover in San Juan, PR! It was absolutely AMAZING and the weather was perfect! I felt like I had already started my vacation!

I was originally a little nervous I was going to have no one to hang out with (ATL base is really old senior mamas who have a reputation for doing nothing at their layovers except shopping or sleeping or just being old) but as soon as we got on the plane to San Juan the one older lady tells me she hopes theres a fridge on this version of our 757 because she brought 2 bottles of Champagne to drink on the beach! I knew instantly that I had nothing to worry about. ;-)

Moving on ( I don't want to bore you with my wonderful leisurely layovers), I do have short story about an old man on one of my flights yesterday:

So, I am sitting in the Atlanta airport, minding my own business, waiting for my plane to arrive. An old man comes over and sits across from me. He proceeds to eat a giant hot dog from Nathans. I continue to play on my cell phone. Suddenly, I hear:

"There's a lot of fat people."

Um, excuse me? Is someone talking to me? What?

I look up from my phone at the old man and say "huh?"

He responds with "There's a lot of fat people" again, as if its a completely normal thing to say to a complete stranger.

I just stare at him. This apparently makes him think I want to hold a conversation with him.

"Sitting here in the airport you can see how fat people are by watching them walk by. It's sad."

Umm...right okay. I just stop looking at him and continue playing on my phone. I desperately try to think of ways to get up and walk away without making this situation more awkward. There really isnt any other way to get out of this situation other than just leaving. So thats what i did. I grabbed my bag and walked a few rows of chairs over.

Yeah, I felt weird for a couple of hours after that LOL.

The old man proceeded to board my plane and I saw his VERY large belly poking out of his shirt...

I wish I could have responded with something really smart like "There's an awful lot of old people too."

That's all for now. I started my week of paid vacation today. Woo hoo!