Vacation Diary: Day 1 Of Type-A At The Beach
By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
Today, I flew from Washington to Providence for Day 1 of my well-deserved vacation.Flying is clearly not what it was in the days before airline deregulation. I can remember most people getting pretty dressed up for a trip, complete with eye makeup and curls in the hair. Now it’s pretty casual. The guys on each side of me are wearing shorts. And when I worked for the old Eastern Airlines, we wore designer uniforms (the largest size was a 10) and stewardesses were forced to quit at age 32 or before that if they got too fat for the tiny uniform. Today’s “flight attendant” was pushing Medicare with a pot-belly, and he, too, was wearing shorts.And planes back then were half full – or half empty, depending on how you looked at it. Today, my filight was totally full – and I was stuck in...
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