whisky whisky

i hate to be stereotypical but if there’s a flight that every crew just dreads doing; are those to india. don’t get me wrong, some passengers are the most beautiful ever but there’s always a few that just ruins the image. the thing is, a lot of them do not speak english. and as far as i know, the word “please” is not in their vocabulary. so the one-sided conversation is devoid of any manners like “please” or “thank you”. thus they always always come across as rude, brusque and plainly demanding.

they also love scotch whisky. i have a feeling they do not understand what they are drinking, but because they have found out that they are complimentary on flights, they take advantage of them as much as possible. of course they don’t only order 5 whiskies from a single crew, but from different crew hoping we don’t find out how much they’ve been drinking (we know, we keep a tab on you alcoholics). once the random stranger finds out what their neighbour is ordering, they ask for the same, even if they don’t know what it is. then comes this chain effect of everyone wanting to have a scotch each.

you see, the brand of scotch we have on board is famous grouse (its yummy, but i’d recommend the glenfiddich or hennessey  more). these people don’t know the name of it. they just know that on the bottle there's a picture of a chicken-looking-bird and its whisky. so they call it chicken whisky. imagine me trying to argue with them that there is no such dish as a whisky-infused chicken.

let me paint this picture for you; an unruly indian man in his 40s; obesely overweight who god-knows-what sort of health problems he has and can barely fit into his seat. he keeps ordering whiskies and half an hour later, he feels sick and completely threw up onto his dinner tray because he could not get out of his seat fast enough to head to the bathroom. this grown up man then feels really embarrassed because now pretty little ladies have to help clean up after him like a big baby.

 

seriously, if you cant hold your drink. don’t start. just because its free doesn’t mean you need to binge on it.