- ISBN13: 9780786890118
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This hilarious book confronts every aspect of a flight attendants absurd worldfrom the endless array of passenger demands, to the secret language of flight attendants, and a unique version of the Safety Demo Shuffle. Fasten your seatbelt and prepare yourself for a side-splitting perspective on the trials and tribulations of air travel…. More >>
Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
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#1 by Anonymous on April 16, 2010 - 2:21 am
You’re hungry on 12 hour flight? What’s the matter with you, why didn’t you pack a picnic hamper. It’s transportation, not a RESTAURANT!! You’re dehydrated from the very dry recirculated air and you try to get an entire can of soda instead of a little four ounce cup, why are you so greedy? You don’t get the can and later go down the galley (to save putting on a call light and summoning a flight attendant, which makes her feel like servant, and according to this books some FA’s just ignore call lights anyway), how dare you take up aisle room or bother the flight attendants!! Flight attendants fly for the free travel and they hate your guts. Bow low before them.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by disappointed reader on April 16, 2010 - 2:34 am
If you are thinking of buying this book — DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY! After about the third chapter I found myself thinking “So quit already if your job is so terrible!” There is really nothing in this book that is very interesting or revealing — just a lot of whining and complaining about all the little parts of her job that aren’t all glamour. Give me a break!
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Chris on April 16, 2010 - 3:32 am
Thank God I kept my receipt. I was, like a lot of other reviewers here, expecting something more of a humorous, David Sedaris-type book of memoirs or short stories. What I got was a headache.
I didn’t laugh once at anything this whiner had to say. The overly sarcastic, frustrating tone and tired use of exclamation points made me what to rip the book to shreds. The girl can not write a shopping list. If she can get a book deal, I guess just about anybody can. I can only imagine how annoying and grating she is in person.
I returned it, hoping to vent to the disinterested customer service agent at Barnes and Noble, but she took the book back as if she’d accepted a few of these books back already.
On the advice of some of these reviews, I picked up Plane Insanity. Much, much funnier. The guy is a creative, witty genious and actually has stories to tell, instead of a bunch of whining half-hearted crybaby stories that go nowhere.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 16, 2010 - 6:01 am
This is one of the most boring books i’ve ever read. It wasn’t even worth my time to keep reading. There were no funny stories. It was mostly stories I have already read. This book was terribly unoriginal and a real snoozer.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 16, 2010 - 7:15 am
Few things really are worse than being compelled to do a job you don’t like just because you couldn’t fulfill your vocation but need to eat anyway…
I chose this book for the job of flight attendant, and found myself that thing in common with the author, unfortunately not the job!
Like her, I’ve always had a dreamjob: hers… and never been able to do it. And nothing she wrote about it weakened my will to become one.
This book doesn’t depict so well the job of flight attendant than it demonstrates how miserable you feel when you can’t achieve your career goal. That’s actually what the book is all about.
I’d recommend it first to airline decision makers, wishing they revise their recruitment criteria when choosing candidates for the job. Obviously they let a lot of more or less talented actresses become flight attendants.
Then I’d recommend it to anyone who considers applying for this job. You’ll see if you really want to do it or not.
Last but not least, this book teaches us to persevere and never give up. After all, it’s also a book on realizing your dream in the end! And that’s entertainment!
Rating: 4 / 5