Retrieved from: HOLY (hee hee)0786890118, 2002
Suggested by: my reading list
My Ratings: 9 Merit, 8 Interest, 8 Fun
If you have flown in the past 20 years, and are remotely human, you know that flight attendants have one of the hardest jobs in the world. They are required to be heroes and garbage pickers, diplomatic with drunks and kind to children traveling alone, knowledgable about the food and drinks they are serving and able to drop everything and perform first aid.
And they do this while trapped with a bunch of usually needy, often pushy strangers--including, frequently, the people with whom they are working--for up to 10 hours at a time with no place to hide.
It's a hard job. No wonder Foss is in a bad mood: she didn't even want the job! It was supposed to be a stepping-stone to her acting career. Sixteen years later and a few appearances on soap operas, she's still waiting for her "big break" on stage. On the other hand, you can see that she actually doesn't mind her job, and has a very good attitude toward it. She never lambastes the pilots (which was a bit of a shock) and for the most part the passengers are not dealt with rudely.
She really only nails the airline (unnamed) she works for and some of the more egregiously psychotic passengers. We can all think of people on certain flights who really should be let off at the next ocean over which the plane flies.
She has written this from a stage show she has put together in New York--it sounds like it's off-off-off-off-Broadway. Very episodic, no real timeline involved, lots of quick shifts in perspective and topic.
I like this book. It's easy, it's amusing and it's a quick read.
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