THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

Being a flight attendant means we meet a lot of people from different cultures with very different personalities on a daily basis.  Some are very sweet. They say Please and Thank you, and even bring us chocolate and Starbucks gift cards.  Some are a little less sweet. They seem to think that shoving us during boarding is ok, as if it were a job related hazard we should be ready for. Others seem to think that snapping their fingers at us to order a drink instead of ringing their call button is not condescending at all and the list goes on and on ... We are kind of used to it - unfortunately.  However some things still surprise us: finding dirty underwear on the floor for example. Yes it happened, and trust me I didn't believe it at first either.  See when my girlfriend sent me this picture of a woman's underwear lying on the airplane's floor, I thought it might be a joke she was playing on me and that she had planted it on the floor. Yes I know...

When I was in Mumbai last month, I met two very fun Lufthansa flight attendants. We had so much fun partying at night that we bought semi- matching kaftans. Check us out:                                             But rest assured my post today is not about our matching outfits, even though it easily could be. Clothes and I, we love each other. The post today is about how Emma, one of the Lufthansa girls, who ended up in underwear outside her room in the middle of the night.  It was Emma's first work layover. She had never been to India, let alone at this hotel. Lucky for the rest of us - not so much for her - the rooms in our crew hotel in India are beautiful and very spacious. On the left you find a big bathtub as well a big shower and a huge sink decorated by a very ornate elephant statue, and behind the huge bathroom, there is a huge King bed and usually a...