Every single passenger was already on board, when the Ramp Agent told me, we would have to wait some more minutes - the captain had found some nasty blood stains on the nose of the aircraft and that was being checked. So I took that time to do some pre-flight work in the galley and also decided to bring the captain his coffee. And then it happened, as soon as I set foot in the cockpit - my heart skipped a beat!!
Standing in the cockpit, I could see my boy outside, hanging on the nose of the airplane. It looked funny and was unexpected. We were just a few feet apart but still, so far away (since we couldn´t touch or talk to each other). I was so flabbergasted that I forgot to serve the coffee. I was just standing there, holding a hot cup in my hand with a huge stupid smile in my face. He also didn´t know I was on board so, when our eyes crossed each other, we looked astonished, smiled, "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" to each other and went back to work with a huge smile on our faces. What a way to begin the day!
And well, he did a good job, because we didn´t crash today!
Written in Spring 2012
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