Coffee, Tea Or Me?
“Introduction So this stewardess enters the cockpit and asks the captain, “Coffee, tea or me?”
He displays his best leer and answers, “Whichever is easier to make.”
Little did I know in 1967 that the book I was writing with a title lifted from a lame old joke would go on, along with its three sequels, to sell more than five million copies, be translated into a dozen languages, cause anxious mothers to forbid their daughters from becoming stewardesses, spawn airline protest groups, have its title... inducted into the public vocabulary, and be republished thirty-six years later, branding me the world’s oldest, tallest, bearded airline stewardess.
I’ve loved every minute of it.
Anyone reading Coffee, Tea or Me? today, who’s flown recently on a commercial airline, will wonder whether air travel could ever have been as much fun—even glamorous—as depicted by Rachel and Trudy. I assure you it was. And like most people who traveled by air during the sixties and seventies, I miss those carefree, alluring days.MoreLess
He displays his best leer and answers, “Whichever is easier to make.”
Little did I know in 1967 that the book I was writing with a title lifted from a lame old joke would go on, along with its three sequels, to sell more than five million copies, be translated into a dozen languages, cause anxious mothers to forbid their daughters from becoming stewardesses, spawn airline protest groups, have its title... inducted into the public vocabulary, and be republished thirty-six years later, branding me the world’s oldest, tallest, bearded airline stewardess.
I’ve loved every minute of it.
Anyone reading Coffee, Tea or Me? today, who’s flown recently on a commercial airline, will wonder whether air travel could ever have been as much fun—even glamorous—as depicted by Rachel and Trudy. I assure you it was. And like most people who traveled by air during the sixties and seventies, I miss those carefree, alluring days.MoreLess
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