Community Chat

[beach-mom]

I read this when I was younger. I always wanted to be a glamorous flight attendant! There was just one tiny problem - I didn't like to fly! 

Anyway, my friends and I all read this and talked about it. A few years ago I was a devoted fan of the TV show Pan Am, and I was really disappointed when it was cancelled.  When we were in Key West last summer we visited the old Pan Am headquarters, which is now a restaurant owned by Kelly McGillis (Top Gun, Witness). There are a lot of museum-type Pan Am artifacts there. I love history, so one of the servers told us what each part of the restaurant originally was!

Now there's a new scandalous book out, Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Airlines Flight Attendant. This one will be fun to read! Has anyone read it? 

[faeriemoon]

I remember it.

I also remember the commercial that took a spin on it:  Coffee, tea or a flick of my Bic?

Remember that one.

[momtochloe]

I used to work for a company that worked closely with the airlines.  Pan Am was one of my carriers.  I have some souvenirs from Pan Am that I will never part with.

One really great era gone by . . . 

eta:  beach-mom, may I ask what is the name of the restaurant that you visited?

[tansy]

I read Coffee, Tea or Me. I wanted to be a stewardess when I was in my early teens but I was several inches too short.

[ROMARY]

I think I'll try to find the book!  Maybe my local library?  Anyway, the NEW book sounds interesting, too!   Always nice to read a bit of humor now-a-days. 

[ROMARY]

p.s.  I, too, thought about being a stewardess (flight attendant now).  Not too crazy about flying, though......lol.   Oh, wait!  Also thought about being a cruise ship's activity director.  (Not crazy about swimming/water, either (lol).  Well, it was fun, just thinking about it, as I recall.

[lulu2]

I too thought it might be glamorous to be a stewardess.  Then I saw what these poor ladies had to put up with.

Maybe it's TMI but why would anyone in her right mind want to join the Mile High Club in the plane's lav?  They are beyond dirty and disgusting.

[traveler]

I remember my mother reading it and similar books.  She thought they were quite racy.

[gidgetgh]

I loved that book! And I think maybe there was a second book also, if I remember correctly.

[MrsSweetieBear]

I remembering loving that book when I read it back in the 60s.  It all sounded so fun and glamorous.  No way could I have met the height requirement though.  In restrospect, I'm glad about that.  In real life, I'm sure I would have hated it, LOL!