I travel a lot.\u00a0 It’s all secret missions, you know.\u00a0 Litigations, defense industry work, secret manufacturing processes, and the like.\u00a0 Don’t tell anyone. Some of my clients insist that I fly first class.\u00a0 Hey, the customer is always right and if that’s what they want, that’s what I do.\u00a0 But first class air travel sure isn’t what it used to be.\u00a0 At least within the US.\u00a0 It used to be that first class meant you got on the airplane first, an attractive young person took your carry on stuff and put it in the overhead bin for you, that same attractive young person would take your jacket and hang it up for you, someone else would bring you a plate of heated nuts (on a real plate, not plastic or paper), they’d ask what kind of drink you’d like (I always went for 100% blue agave Tequila, whatever you have, please), and all this was within maybe 60 seconds of getting to your seat.\u00a0 And the meals…wow, they were heavenly.\u00a0 Like you’d get in a restaurant.\u00a0 Real food.\u00a0 Real dishes.\u00a0 More booze.\u00a0 Cloth napkins.\u00a0 It was real, you know, first class treatment.<\/p>\n
Today?\u00a0 You gotta be kidding me, I thought when the guy came around with my “lunch.”\u00a0 It was a cardboard container with maybe four or five cellophane snack bags.\u00a0 Like Mom used to put in my lunch when I went to elementary school.\u00a0 I took the offerings the first time this happened, thinking it was a lot of snacks before they served lunch.\u00a0 As we neared our destination I realized:\u00a0 That was lunch.\u00a0 I asked if their catering service just knocked over a vending machine.\u00a0 \u00a0I figured if they are giving me a first class snack, I’m going to give them first class sarcasm.<\/p>\n
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