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No wonder my DVR refused to record it. I have it set on "new episodes only." That dang machine was smarter than me. Thanks for the heads up.
That's okay. With all these new shows on that I like, I'm having a hard time remembering what days they are on. All I know is Wednesday is Survivor and Sunday is AR. I have to THINK about what's on now. I'm cheating a little bit. I record one while I watch another and then use my VOD to watch a 3rd one usually during the weekend. That's the only way I can see all the shows I like now!
You have a point regarding their youthful looking appearance but if I recall, that is what the airlines were striving for back in the 60's. The stewardesses looked and were very young.
A friend of mine became a stewardess but didn't last long because she couldn't keep up the smiles. And she was told to always keep smiling.
Yes. I forgot how rotten the 'good ol days' were on women. Most were either stewardesses or teachers or nurses. Families would often deny a continuing education to a woman because she'd only get married and waste it.
My own father thought this way and I left home and got a job right after graduation and put myself through colleges nights. Fortunately a local parochial boys college opened its doors to women right about that time or it would have been that much rougher.
If I recall, not too long before that, most colleges had only day courses making it even harder to work your way through.
Maybe it's latent thoughts such as these that make me despise the hypocrisy of those days.
Tried watching that show...depressed the heck out of me. I remember when flying was fun, comfortable, and the flight attendants were nice.
Those were the days when passengers were also nice.
As people began to dress down to fly, and tickets became cheaper, forcing airlines to cut service, passengers began to become more rude, demanding and disrespectful.
Those were also the days when the flight attendants and pilots didn't have to worry as much about someone trying cut their throat with box cutters and flying their airplane into buildings.
A couple years before retiring, I had a 21 year old who thought he was beyond the rules begin giving my flight attendants a hard time. He had been ordering drinks from different attendants and getting drunk.
When they saw he was intoxicated and learned what he was doing, they cut his drinks off and he became belligerent, calling one of the male attendants the N word and threatening him.
I had to go back with two male flight attendants to make him understand that he had to sit down and shut up now, or I would land in Gander, Newfoundland and have him arrested for threatening a flight crew member and interfering with the duties of the flight crew.
He behaved himself from then on, but we still had him arrested when we got to NY. The police came on board and as he reached the front of the airplane they escorted him off to jail. The flight attendant didn't press charges for the guy threatening him, so he got out the next morning. But I think he learned a good lesson. He certainly deserved what he got, because not only was he upsetting the flight attendants, he was making all the other passengers around him uncomfortable.
Those were the days when passengers were also nice.
As people began to dress down to fly, and tickets became cheaper, forcing airlines to cut service, passengers began to become more rude, demanding and disrespectful.
Those were also the days when the flight attendants and pilots didn't have to worry as much about someone trying cut their throat with box cutters and flying their airplane into buildings..
It has nothing to do with dressing down.
It has everything to do with what always happens whenever something that a select few privileged people get to do becomes available to the common man.
It goes to shiiite.
For all the criticism on here about what the stewardesses had to endure in "those days", keep in mind that they were paid considerably better than the "flight attendants" are today.
It has nothing to do with dressing down.
It has everything to do with what always happens whenever something that a select few privileged people get to do becomes available to the common man. It goes to shiiite.
I'm sure there was NPI but I see something in that statement that struck me as funny since there was NPI.
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