Going Postal
I love this story from yesterdays Guardian.
And they arrested him? Charged him with criminal mischief? My ass! He should be carried through the streets on the shoulders of his peers. People should name their children after him and parents should use him to scare their kids into being quiet in restaurants etc. Lets be honest flight attendants are just waiters with a camp wiggle and too much makeup, not that I am one to stereotype. I salute Mr Slater. I salute him for not putting up with the shit, for demanding some god damn respect and failing that doing the next best thing, grabbing a beer and hitting the emergency exit. Huzzah for Mr Slater!
I shall make him one of Manuel's Heroes, for service to waiting kind by not tolerating rudeness, bad manners and the bumping of heads.
Now, I wonder if the boss will let me install an inflatable escape slide. He must have felt aces as he slide down it to freedom, short lived all the same, with a beer in his hand.
Good times!
*******00:30 UPDATE*******
AWESOME ANIMATED RECREATION
and he’s bald….bald legend….
In full agreement with you Manuel You have to hand it to the guy… Although I’m not sure I’d have the desired effect if I flipped the bird at a few people & hurled myself out the window of the 11th floor of BT Tower.
it’s one hell of a way to resign is it not…his, not yours….that’s just suicide….heh
At least once in your life everybody should just say ‘fuck you’ and storm off in a power walk.
Now just once manuel mind.
I do it so often now…nobody notices or cares any more….even at home….one day they’ll notice….
Actually I retract that last bit…..reads to much like the fatalistic whinge of a mass murderer….
wish i had a blow up slide…man…i’d be wicked…cheers and *clink* heres to you mr deal with the public..you are a hero in my books!
ha, cheers Cat!
A taxi driver mate of mine who works Bangor was doing a run to Donagadee, the fella in the back did complained about everything from his driving to the route he took.
After 10 mins of this he pulled the car over to the side of the road, got out, pulled open the back door and jumped in beside the punter in the back seat.
He then handed the some what shocked punter some keys and told him if he wasn’t happy he could drive his fuckin self!
Would love to be so brave!!
hahahahahaha! Sometimes you just have to draw a line…
Ha ha! I did this once while I was giving a ratarsed drunk friend of a friend of a friend a lift home after a party – they slabbered once too often so I pulled over at the bottom of Tate’s Avenue and told them to get out and fucking walk. I have rarely felt so satisfied.
ha, sounds like our mutual friend….heh
The story I read said that when they came to arrest him he was in the sexual embrace of his lover. I’m not sure what all that entails, but it sounds like a good time.
The video seems to suggest that to…walk/slide out of work tellig people to go fuck themselves whilst drinking beer and then go get some? not a bad day……
Steven Slater the airline waiter took a dive to glory, he said this is great but now I’m bate and all I have is a hangover and a story !
hahahahah! very good. I don’t normally trust poetry but that’s okay….
They need to give Steven a medal and put that cranky bitch that hit him with her suitcase on a permanent no-fly list. Yayyyy for Steven!
huzzah for the people who say no more….!
apparently he can get seven year in prison for it? what a load of crap! good on him… air passengers are the worst kind of travellers! I was on a flight once where a couple let their four spawns of satan run wild before belting them in behind our seats and turning a blind eye (pretending to sleep) while they kicked the crap out of our seat backs…. why do people think its okay to be rude (or let their kids be little s**ts) on an aeroplane?!
people are ruder now than ever before….it’s a fact….
I’ve always wanted a go on one of those slides. Also, criminal mischief sounds like a deadly thing to get arrested for.
but doesn’t it….I could imagine giggling as they lifted me….
Having worked in retail for 6 years, Mr. Slater is now my hero (after you, Manuel, of course.) The customer is RARELY right. In fact, almost never.
true that….
Sliding down the emergency slide with a beer in your hand? Awesome now has a name.
Steven slater.
perfectly put….!
What. A. Legend.
totally
Testing, Testing !
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yes you are…..heh