It has to mean that you're doing a good job...

..when after a flight, a director from a well-known company handles you his business card, "Just in case you want to change your job"!

Flowers in the Galley

There are many different types of pilots in the flight deck as there are flight attendants in the cabin. Sometimes you look at your briefing report and think "yeah, that will be a nice flight!" or "dang it, not him/her again..". When I saw his 3-letter code on my report I went: "Oh no..". No that I don´t like him, I actually do and I trully believe that there isn´t a single soul out there who doens´t like him too, but  he can be so challenging sometimes.

He´s this middle aged man, who maybe divorced, or happily maried (I honestly do not wish to know) and enjoys making stand-up in the flight deck, being able to put a smile in everyone, even the most soggy passenger on board. I have never been able to have a real serious conversation with him, wathever you say, wathever you do, he always ends up putting his catchy flirt frase on you. And that can be so challenging.. I have never seen that man having a bad day.

So it was no surprise to me he ended up doing this: after landing from a very stressfull and loaded flight, and having to deal with all our work on ground with temperatures that were killing us all, we struglled to prepare our cabin for the next passengers as soon as possible in order not to loose our slot. And the he came, with this beautifull flowers from that paradisiac island. I can not recall the last time someone offerd me flowers that way, with so much thought and "love". I arranged them in the galley and I noticed how our passengers enviously looked at them while boarding. And they weren´t the only ones. After that flight, while entering the taxi who would take us to our hotel, our taxi driver couldn´t stop asking questions about those cute little flowers. So after the drive I offered her them and I know I made her day.