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Flight Attendant Dressing Down a Marine
The Lead Flight Attendant was in the cockpit taking beverage orders when my First Officer announced that he smelled cigarette smoke. At his announcement, the Lead and I both smelled it also. The Lead was a very short but feisty girl. She advised us that she would take care of it. The story then took a funny twist. She could tell that the smoke was coming from the first class lavatory. She knocked on the door, announcing herself as the Lead Flight Attendant and advising the passenger to put the cigarette out and return to the cabin. No response. The Lead then advised the passenger again to come out. No response. Getting increasingly mad, the Lead announced that she would have to enter the lavatory if the passenger didn’t come out promptly. Dead silence. After a short while, she could tell that her bluff was being called. She advised that she would be coming in after counting down. At the count of zero, the Lead opened the door to find a little old man, sitting in place and totally startled by this woman bursting in on him. It was obvious that the old man was almost deaf, hadn’t heard anything and was not the culprit. The totally embarrassed Lead mouthed her apologies, locked the door and went off to find the real culprit. She asked a first class passenger who had been in the lav before the old guy. It was a very large Marine in uniform. The Lead stormed into the Coach section and immediately found the Marine. From what I gather, the dressing down by this little lady had the Marine shaking in his boots. Needless to say, he didn’t cause any more problems for the rest of the flight.
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Piedmont Airlines - B-737-200 Captain - Early 90's
| 1/17/2004
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