Nana Gabbalot (try saying that 5 times after a couple of cocktails) used to always rant: “I’m not crazy, the world is crazy!” Of course the old battle axe was nuttier than a fruitcake, but she did have a point.
Just look around: hurricanes are raging, dictators are toppling, financial markets are plummeting and all we care about are people peeing on planes and other aberrant behaviour. It’s enough to reduce Anderson Cooper to a fit of little-girl giggles. Yes, adored French actor Gerard Depardieu (they like Jerry Lewis too) made ‘oui-oui’ on a plane when a flight attendant refused to let him use the facilities.
In another incident, a U.S. Olympic ski prospect drank so much that he urinated on a fellow passenger – the headline should have read ‘Pissed Pister Pisses.’
In a third drama, a woman was sentenced for beating on her husband and a couple of flight attendants on a delayed flight last year.
And, that’s just the passengers: on the staff front, British Airways says it may lose lucrative routes if crews don’t stop misbehaving at luxury hotels. Reports talk of champagne-fuelled topless pool parties, hallway streaking, a threesome with a male pilot and two male flight attendants and the attempted smuggling of a donkey into a hotel for purposes unknown.
Now, we all know that I enjoy a little horseplay as much as the next gal (OK, maybe a whole lot more than the next gal), but a little decorum please!
So, if any of you dear pumpkins can’t go intercontinental without getting all incontinent, there are products you can purchase. I don’t know about that kind of thing... but, Nana told me.
