Day Three
Well, I realize that here it is Sunday morning as my usual habit is to enjoy reading the Sunday newspaper. What I’ve never realized is that on this day I will have read that paper locally in 5 cities: Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Detroit and San Francisco. Thank goodness I like to read. As I board the flight to Louisville along with about 30 other people I notice something quite unusual. This gate agent is looking at the driver’s license of each person as it’s presented and saying, “Welcome aboard Betty”. In my case he did call me Randy. Isn’t it good that we can actually be comfortable to acknowledge each other’s name? I would back legislation backing this for FAA mandate. Anyway, it’s funny how things like this stick out. On the Pittsburgh – Louisville turnaround it is the very same plane and in the 10 minutes it took me to reboard, the head Flight Attendant pulls me aside and asks if I wasn’t just on the flight that has just landed from Pittsburgh. When I answer her truthfully she wants to know why I would do such a thing. When I answer, “It’s a frequent flyer thing” she grins as if understanding. Later she comes over and says she looked up my itinerary and thanks me for spending my day with US Airways. She then gifts me with a large bottle of water and mentions that I’ll need it for hydration by the end of the day. And that’s how I got my next drink.