Flirting

I am often told that i flirt a lot: rarely told that i flirt well….

I am currently sitting in business class, sipping a fine red wine and enjoying my almost flat seat courtesy of the First Officer, whose name i actually can’t remember anymore. For once it has paid off. Me, LG and Noxy have just been personally escorted from our seats (in what i will now refer to as pleb class) to our new ones by the well dressed officer whose name i just can’t remember. Even listening to Coldplay is an enjoyable experience.

It all started when I did my usual tactic of flirting with the stewards, which has usually got me a few extra chocolate bars and on one occasion a bag full of plane wine to take to Sierra Leone, developed into a conversation about why i was flying to Ghana and what i was then going to do once I got to Togo. He seemed genuinely interested and told me the First Officer’s daughter was going to to Ghana to do voluntary work. I said wed be more than happy to talk to him if he wanted a chat. A bottle of extra red wine later (which would have been bonus enough) and he appeared next to us and we got into a chat about his daughter and her future work. I admit at this point Noxy took most of the lead, whilst LG was almost oblivious to it all, but once it was finished, as if asking us out on an illicit dates he said ‘would you be embarrassed if i asked you to come and sit in some free seats up the front?’. Embarrassed?!?! Ecstatic more like! For once it had paid off! As we left our stuff on his command, as if escaping from prison, he led us up front to our new fully reclinable seats, as we struggled to contain our childish excitement.

We live in our own world at times in this job,and it was nice to feel special and valued. I have often written about how it is very easy in our field to be so damn self-relective and PC that we often loose the bigger picture. Well, the First Officer whose name I am now really upset I still can’t remember due to the wine thought what we do was important job, he warmed to us in our talk and wanted to do something special for us.

Thank you First Officer. Not just for the seats, but for the recognition.