March 25, 2020 - 194 - "New Series: Daily Hit of Happy" and "Counting Underwear"

New Feature:  Daily Hit of Happy

     My original intent with this blog was to spread a little humor.  Trying to write an actual post daily has made me feel decidedly un-funny.   So I thought I'd start sharing anything and everything that I find funny, or positive, or inspiring, or distracting even.

     I'll still write my post.  It's after the 'funny' party...and, today anyway, is actually kind of funny.  (imho)

     Anyway:  The first of, hopefully, many installments of #DailyHitOfHappy...'cause it feels like we all need some extra 'happy' in our lives these days.

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Photo by Patrick Kool on Unsplash

Be Prepared

     Being a flight attendant means planning ahead, packing ahead, and consistently considering your underwear supply.  The underwear part of the planning is crucial.

     We're downright superstitious about underwear.  

      It is a known fact that if you have a 'turn' (you're scheduled to go somewhere and come back in the same day) and pack only for a turn...the chances of your  flight home cancelling goes up a thousand-fold.  

Uh Oh    

     The other day when our flight cancelled for the next day we began to discuss the possibility of the trip getting way longer than the two-day trip it was originally scheduled as.  

     The guy I was flying with immediately said:  "Uh oh.  I only packed for a two-day."

Sharing is Caring

     As the situation developed and our schedulers couldn't tell us exactly when we were coming back, I said I was going to deadhead home on the next flight out.

     My (male) co-worker's first response:  "So you're saying you have more underwear than you need?"

     Me:  "Yeah.  How do you feel about thongs?"

     Co-worker:  "Desperate times.  Desperate measures."

Different Responses

My response to this comment:  "Bahhhaaaahaaahahaaaahaaa!!!"

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Michael's response when I told him later:  "Eeeeeewwwww!"

Me:  "He was just kidding.  I thought he was hilarious."

Michael:  "Eeeewwww."

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     Maybe it's flight attendant-specific humor?

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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't.  A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

-Horace Walpole

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"If I had no sense of humor, 

I would long ago have committed suicide."

-Mahatma Gandhi

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Pithy Quote About Underwear:  Excerpt of dialogue from the movie "Harry Met Sally:

Harry:  So how come you broke up with Sheldon?

Sally:  How do you know we broke up?

Harry:  Because if you didn't break up, you wouldn't be with me, you'd be off with Sheldon the Wonder Schlong.

Sally:  First of all, I am not with you.  And second of all, it is none of your business why we broke up.
Harry:  You'e right, you're right.  I don't want to know.

Sally:  Well, if you must know, it was because he was very jealous and I had these Days of the Week underpants.

Harry:  (He makes a loud buzzer sound). I'm sorry.  I need a judge's ruling on this.  Days of the Week underpants?

Sally::  Yes.  They had the days of the week on them, and I thought they were sort of funny-and then one day, Sheldon says to me.  'You never wear Sunday.'  He's all suspicious.  Where was Sunday?  Where had I left Sunday?  And I told him, and he didn't believe me.

Harry:  What?

Sally:  They don't make Sunday.

Harry:  Why not?

Sally:  Because of God.

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