Bad dream

[kgwilson]

I had a bad dream last night.

 

 

In it was CASA, crew scheduling, bad schedules, bad management, unserviceable aircraft equipment, changing weather, no extra holding fuel, ever-changing procedures, endless flight manual revisions, dead heading in cattle class, broken luggage, lost luggage, nasty passenger agents, crabby old 120 kg flight attendants that were axe-handle wide, all-nighters, foreign countries, sleep deprivation, mergers, seniority squabbles, company threats, food poisoning, no food, bad coffee, pulled away from my family for weeks at a time, fleabag hotels, late cabs and maniac cab drivers, waiting for gates, weather, low visibility approaches, aircraft de-icing, PCs, Gestapo check airman, medicals, commuting to and from work in unspeakable weather, the parking lot from Hell, parking lot buses, inter-terminal busses, spring break, Christmas rush, Easter rush, PA announcements, insurance, drug and alcohol testing, noise violations, customs line ups, dry cleaning, terrorism, security passes, rude security personnel, high petrol/oil prices, pay cuts, rush hour traffic, that infernal alarm clock, crash pads, catching cold away from home, lackadaisical crew members, sexual harassment threats, flight attendants and co-pilots implying that they are a gift to aviation after being there three years, back biting, gossip, cell phones, aircraft cram courses, plus laying my job on the line several times a year with simulators, endless procedural memorization and Annual Recurrent Training days......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I woke up and joyously found myself still retired!

 

 

[Sapphire]

I always like stories like that with a happy ending