Some Odds and Ends

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          Some Odds and Ends
Randy, who has been known to tip a few, until he was at last fired from his job with the airline, where he worked as a mechanic. He is happy, now as he can draw Social Security and his pension. And nothing is required of him.

But he was not always a drinker. Take for instance the following.

Randy was was wearing a coat and tie while seated in the tourist class of a plane waiting to take-off. Seated next to him was a woman who was upset as the plane had failed to take off as promised. The plane's door opened and two men made their way up to the pilot of the plane. Some discussion took place and they left, followed by Randy. The woman passenger looked out the window to see Randy standing on the wing of the plane with a a dipstick in his hand measuring the gas in the wing. When he came back, the woman said, "I just asked you what was wrong with the plane, not fix it!"

Gene, who had been a fighter pilot and later flew for Pan American Airlines, was flying to a reunion of his fighter squadron. Seated next to him was a good-looking woman with a child. She noticed the insignia on his hat, and asked if he was going to a reunion. He replied that he was. She then said that she was also a fighter pilot, flying F15 fighter jets. She was returning from maternity leave. She told him that in war games she was the aggressor, and that visiting Asian pilots, when learning that they had been shot down by a woman, became very upset.

     Aloha
     Grant