The FA and author of the blog Flying Pinto created a list that proof if you are a real flight attendant.
You know you are a flight attendant when:
- You can eat a 4-course meal standing at the kitchen table.
- You are so used to standing while eating you don’t even look for a chair anymore.
- You search for a button to flush the toilet.
- You look for the “crew lane” at the grocery store.
- All of your pens have different hotel names on them.
- You NEVER unpack.
- You can recognize pilots by the backs of their heads – not by their faces.
- You can tell from 70 yards away if a piece of luggage will fit in the overhead bin.
- You can tie a neck scarf 36 ways.
- You know at least 25 uses for air sickness bags – none of which pertains to vomit.
- You understand and actually use the 24-hour clock.
- You own two sets of uniforms: fat and thin.
- You don’t know what day of the week it is!
- You stand at the front door and politely say “Buh-bye, thanks, have a nice day” when someone leaves your home.
- You can make a sentence using all of the following phrases: “At this time,” “For your safety,” “Feel free,” and “As a reminder”.
- You know what’s on the cover of the current issues of Hello, Ok, and People magazines.
- You stop and inspect every fire extinguisher you pass by, just to make sure the “pressure gauge needle is in the green zone.”
- Your forearms and hands are riddled with oven burns and galley cuts.
- You wake up and have to look at the hotel stationery to figure out where you are.
- You refer to cities by their airport codes.
- Every time the door bell rings you look up at the ceiling.
- You change into your “cabin shoes” to cook dinner at home!
- You open your bathroom doors at home slowly in case someone forgot to lock it.
- You only know 100, 150 or 250 degrees in your home oven.
- You can spot out a flying airplane from the ground and tell the other person what airline it is and what type of aircraft.
- You bring home different grocery bags full of goodies that you can’t get in your home town – and tell a story about it.
- You’re a GREAT multi-tasker.
- You have mastered the art of walking very quickly down the aisle and not catching anyone’s eye.
- You’re at a friend’s party and you start wiping your hands on their curtains.
- You try to “lock and latch” your shopping cart.
