jimcfs
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Get better soon, SNN!! The drive thru needs you there.
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InternationalShannon
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Thanks again for all the nice wishes. I will include the link to my little bloggy thing in my usav profile because the link shouldnt be posted in a thread and you can follow my strange path to who knows what there, if you choose. I am safely in ABQ and unfortunately will turn 30 here so no more bash for sure 🙁
I miss the drive thru and they have assured me my place is waiting for when I am able to return.
I miss the drive thru and they have assured me my place is waiting for when I am able to return.
Harry Callahan
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Shannon:
I just read the last page of you blog about arr. at Abq. I want you to know that I want you well & you are in my prayers. I've been around "a few" years & I really wish we could've talked.
I just read the last page of you blog about arr. at Abq. I want you to know that I want you well & you are in my prayers. I've been around "a few" years & I really wish we could've talked.
InternationalShannon
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Hello from ABQ!!! I want to come home!!!! All is well, I'm finally positive I'm getting better, I HAVE NO FREAKING CHOICE!!!
So I hear there are more layoffs coming? VPLOA on the gates in CLT? WHattt???
So I hear there are more layoffs coming? VPLOA on the gates in CLT? WHattt???
InternationalShannon
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Hola from the Land of Entrapment!!!
I'm happy today because NoelNotRoss got the jumpseat today on an east bun truck so he's coming to see me and we're going to go to Santa Fe and I'm going to make him eat super hot food. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Speaking of NNR, he is going to be switching bun truck bases to PHL to fly to TLV all the time and I'm wondering, does the first class frosty holder fill up quick? I really am not a fan of twelve hours or whatever in steerage. Just sayin.
Any non revs ever get up there?
I'm happy today because NoelNotRoss got the jumpseat today on an east bun truck so he's coming to see me and we're going to go to Santa Fe and I'm going to make him eat super hot food. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Speaking of NNR, he is going to be switching bun truck bases to PHL to fly to TLV all the time and I'm wondering, does the first class frosty holder fill up quick? I really am not a fan of twelve hours or whatever in steerage. Just sayin.
Any non revs ever get up there?
SegmentKing
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OMGz gnome.. i forgot to change my avatar because of U.
Remember that time u couldn't ever leave 'the throne'?? :-D so what um... should i change it to?
Remember that time u couldn't ever leave 'the throne'?? :-D so what um... should i change it to?
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Happy birthday Shannon!
InternationalShannon
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YAYY!!! I lovelovelove Birthday Happies!! I'm so sad I couldn't have my party. That would have been tonight.
Maybe I can plan something fun for when I get back.
A funny thing happened yesterday, NoelNotRoss was trying to call United to find out about bookings so that he could get out of ABQ and they have this annoying voice activated system and it kept not letting him get through to anyone so after saying "AGENT" "RESERVATIONS" "OPERATOR" and dialing zero he told it to "KISS MY A$$" and it said "You would like to speak with an agent....Transferring...." and then he got right through. It was so funny, I got into one of my giggling fits and because he was all late and annoyed,he didn't get the joke and had this really nasty scowl on his face , which made me laugh even harder... whatever.....
It was funny. I guess you had to be there. And not be NNR.
So anyway. I'm 30 tomorrow and I'm thinking I would rather celebrate 29 over and over again. What do you guys think?
Maybe I can plan something fun for when I get back.
A funny thing happened yesterday, NoelNotRoss was trying to call United to find out about bookings so that he could get out of ABQ and they have this annoying voice activated system and it kept not letting him get through to anyone so after saying "AGENT" "RESERVATIONS" "OPERATOR" and dialing zero he told it to "KISS MY A$$" and it said "You would like to speak with an agent....Transferring...." and then he got right through. It was so funny, I got into one of my giggling fits and because he was all late and annoyed,he didn't get the joke and had this really nasty scowl on his face , which made me laugh even harder... whatever.....
It was funny. I guess you had to be there. And not be NNR.
So anyway. I'm 30 tomorrow and I'm thinking I would rather celebrate 29 over and over again. What do you guys think?
InternationalShannon
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....writing practice!!!
ON PARIS.....
Having a job in the airline industry seems to be glamorous to those people who actually have real jobs. You know, the kind where your head doesn't always have to be in the clouds. (har, har, har)
Seriously, though, when I would stop before work to pick up a cold drink at a gas station, or at the grocery store after work, I could feel people staring at me. Of course, I do enjoy my uniform, the sassy scarf and the form-fitting dress are super cute - - but I'd like to think I look cute in my normal clothes too. I never get stared at in the same places in my normal clothes though. Only in my uniform.
Especially at the filling station when I've got my Dr. Pepper and my gum, the man who is ringing me up, the same guy who rings me up every day will ask me if I'm coming from or going to work. I'll say going to work. Then he'll ask me where I'm going. Because he asks me that all the time. Because I have an airline uniform on I must be a flight attendant. Or "stewardist". Whatever.
The first time it happened, I explained that I wasn't a flight attendant and that I just worked in the airport. Tickets, bags, etc..After he realized that I basically had his job with less pay and a cuter outfit I got a blank stare and then "Oh." Then the guy in line behind me dressed in a farm outfit tapped me on the shoulder and began an endearing story about how my airline lost his bag full of Gucci suits and how they are going to get their asses sued off and I nod awkwardly and try to find the nearest exit keeping in mind it might be behind me.
This happens all the time in public settings, once they find out I am not a crewmember, they either aren't interested, confused, or they want to tell me all about how my airline screwed them over.
So now, years later, when the guy at the gas station asks me where I'm going today, I always roll my eyes and say "Paris again..." and I'll flip my hair and act like it sucks to be me and the guy behind me will wonder in silence if I've ever joined the mile-high club instead of telling me what happened to his bag full of fine clothing and jewelry that probably never even existed.
My job can be glamorous and full of adventure for five minutes before I go in. Once I clock in, it'll return to being the job my parents warned me about if I didn't get a college degree...but there's always Paris! 🙂
ON PARIS.....
Having a job in the airline industry seems to be glamorous to those people who actually have real jobs. You know, the kind where your head doesn't always have to be in the clouds. (har, har, har)
Seriously, though, when I would stop before work to pick up a cold drink at a gas station, or at the grocery store after work, I could feel people staring at me. Of course, I do enjoy my uniform, the sassy scarf and the form-fitting dress are super cute - - but I'd like to think I look cute in my normal clothes too. I never get stared at in the same places in my normal clothes though. Only in my uniform.
Especially at the filling station when I've got my Dr. Pepper and my gum, the man who is ringing me up, the same guy who rings me up every day will ask me if I'm coming from or going to work. I'll say going to work. Then he'll ask me where I'm going. Because he asks me that all the time. Because I have an airline uniform on I must be a flight attendant. Or "stewardist". Whatever.
The first time it happened, I explained that I wasn't a flight attendant and that I just worked in the airport. Tickets, bags, etc..After he realized that I basically had his job with less pay and a cuter outfit I got a blank stare and then "Oh." Then the guy in line behind me dressed in a farm outfit tapped me on the shoulder and began an endearing story about how my airline lost his bag full of Gucci suits and how they are going to get their asses sued off and I nod awkwardly and try to find the nearest exit keeping in mind it might be behind me.
This happens all the time in public settings, once they find out I am not a crewmember, they either aren't interested, confused, or they want to tell me all about how my airline screwed them over.
So now, years later, when the guy at the gas station asks me where I'm going today, I always roll my eyes and say "Paris again..." and I'll flip my hair and act like it sucks to be me and the guy behind me will wonder in silence if I've ever joined the mile-high club instead of telling me what happened to his bag full of fine clothing and jewelry that probably never even existed.
My job can be glamorous and full of adventure for five minutes before I go in. Once I clock in, it'll return to being the job my parents warned me about if I didn't get a college degree...but there's always Paris! 🙂
Dog Wonder
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When you hit fifty, thirty would be way cool.
And, getting a degree is no guarantee you won't get a job your parents warned you about.
Happy Birthday Dear Shannnnnnn-on
jimcfs
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Happy Birthday Shannon!!! Hope you have a few cold frosties tonight!!
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having spent the past 29 yrs here (must have been born here right)...happy *29* little girl... 
