United Airlines Needs to Teach Flight Attendants Manners

As my grandmother used to say, ‘It takes two to tango’

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Besides complaints about Medium’s new system for NOT paying faithful writers, known as “The Forbidden Zone,” and Russia’s crimes against humanity in Ukraine and Russia, bigger fish are flopping around out in the open, and they are begging to be grilled (although, who can beat a friendly, fish-fry organized by a local church?).

The open step

We have all read about the madness in the skies above us. In days past, many of us would look up at the sky, and upon seeing a plane unfurling long lines of fluffy, cotton-like contrails, hearts would race a bit faster, and unseen to us, pupils would slightly expand as we tried with the mind’s eye to imagine to what far-off adventure were those lucky passengers embarking. When I first saw the Concorde fly overhead, my uncle, a navigator on a B-17 during World War II, and our local aviation expert announced: “That plane will be in Paris in 3 hours.” It blew my mind: Neptune, New Jersey, one minute, and Paris, the next. I knew that a life of travel would become my odyssey.

And it did — it is. As a lifelong traveler and, a most-importantly, skilled one, I know that traveling for many is stressful. It’s not the stress we experience when…