THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

In his latest blog post titled '2015: closing cycles,' Coelho wrote "Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away."  It is 2016 today so I guess everything in 2015 should be in the past at this point, but something has come back to haunt me. One of my closest friends, a girl I have been friends with since my teenage years, dropped a bomb on me. She said I had to choose between our friendship and my friendship with her ex-boyfriend. If you are a guy, you are probably rolling your eyes right now 'cause you don't even understand how this could be an issue. But if you are a girl, you might be thinking "OMG, of course you can't."  But this is not high school anymore and life is not black or white. There is a lot of gray. And I believe this is one of those situations. Let me explain.  Best friend and X dated for almost 5 years. There were a lot of up and downs, and a million breakups happened before the final br...

Every time my boyfriend says he is in finance, people just nod their head. No questions, no WOW, nada! Then I say I am a flight attendant and people get excited.          "That's awesome ..." "Have you been ... like ... everywhere?"  " I have always wanted to be a flight attendant ... "  People are so nice, even impressed, and so respectful of my job. But then they get on a plane and they transform: they don't listen to anything I say, they act up and they seem to think that I make up rules just to annoy them. I promise I don't, none of us flight attendants do, and you don't make the rules either. So whether you think you have the time to go through customs or not, it is not going to change the fact that you are going to go through customs. It is not optional. So just take the form I am handing out. Even if you think you are too pretty for following rules ... And borrow a pen from your neighbor. I know you think I...

Who enjoys going through security at the airport? Nobody. And it's not so much the taking off your shoes and belt that is so annoying, it is the people telling you what to do because they are rarely polite and the "rules" are never the same. One day your belt is fine, one day it is a weapon of mass destruction, one day toothpaste is no problem, another you are stuck with bad breath during your 15 hour flight because the officer was in a bad freaking mood. Of course, some rules do really change, but usually the answer to all these discrepancies lies in two LITTLE words: Basically some idiot was given too much power and decided to make your day a living hell because his life is a living hell. Unfortunately, it is not just airport security. One of my coworkers inspired today's post. True any flight attendant can pretty much get any passenger kicked off if she really want to, but is it worth it? Not to me, but it is to some. It might not even be fair, bu...