Galley - Raid!!
2 nights ago I was "asked" to work a double shift (2 pm - 6 am) as one of our major clients had just purchased an aircraft in London and were flying in a deadhead to Canada that night at 00:30 for a 30 hour stopover to get the standard safety equipment (O2 bottles, fire extiguishers, First Aid Kits etc.) installed in the overhead bins and on partition walls as per Transport Canada requirements.
- To make a long story short, this meant an insane scramble of screw-insert installations and composite resins flying about in the wee hours of the morning in order to get everything in its right place and the resins hardened in time for the plane to leave for Vancouver to pick up a revenue flight that evening........
So amidst the stress and adhesive-fume induced delerium, the most fabulous part of this particular work nightmare (besides 8 hours of Overtime pay) was the quality of the foreign food Galley-Raid we were treated too.......
- You see, it is the unwritten rule in The Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Code of Ethics that when an aircraft is brought in on a short-notice overtime rush-rush situation that anything left in the galleys (food storage bins) is fair game to the poor, tired, starving Maintenance folk who have given up their lives and beauty sleep in order to fix, or modify your plane.
So when it was all said and done,THIS was the galley-raid loot I ended up with!...
.... Some lovely English Treats from Tesco's, and for my stinky cheese lovin' French girlfriend - a Tesco's FINEST platter!. 
This is me in the cockpit at 6 am looking a little worse for wear but still smiling.... The happy ending was that we got the job done 15 hours ahead of schedule and we are for the moment lauded as superstars....
(superstars eating stinky cheese flown in from London no less!....)
posted by Connie @ 12:26 AM
13 Comments:
Well done Connie! Tesco cheeses are usually OK, but not as smelly as Sainsbury's. I am a huge tesco fan. Well, not quite huge, just a little on the podgy side. Boom boom!
It's an unwritten rule everywhere that employees should try to get as many perks out the job as possible without reorting to anything illegal. It's a fine balancing act, but it provides lots of fun to an otherwise dull existence.
All the lovely english pre-packed food.
Do you have Tesco and Cadbury in Canada??
Is that a stupid question? Hey you don't know until you ask.
Do planes need keys to get the engine started?
Again, I don't know!!
I hope you meant "stinky-cheese-loving GF", not "stinky cheese-loving GF"?
Ah yes, the perks of working in the field. Gotta love those 'bonuses'! Like being able to pee on any surface you wish in the name of science... heh heh.
Ho ho ho Aas!
Wow, bet you are sleeping atm huh? So, do you know how to fly planes as well as repair them? Or, is it as I've heard (cousin who is a pilot) that it really isnt' all that hard to fly, they just make sure you really know what you are doing in order to fly people because we're all such freaks thinking we'll plummet from the sky at the slightest ill turn.
Herge Darling, no we do not have Tesco's here, nor do airplanes need keys.... you do however need a punch code to get into the cockpit.... then all you need is to know the sequence of buttons to push so to speak as to get the engines started, and your off!
We Do have Cadburys here, but it's Canadian made Cadburys and not near as good as the engish Cadburys......
Hi Rowan, - the flying part is easy, its the landing that takes all the skill.
Hello Tina!
Sainsburys is a bit posh isn't it... or is Waitrose the fancier one? I can't remember. My parents have a bit of a grocery store fetish as they must check out every store in every city "just to see"
Last Time we were in england we went to 6 different stores. I found Safeway and Tescos had the best take away curries....
Aas... I did in fact mean stinky- cheese- loving GF although as much as any human can, I have known her to be my stinky, cheese loving girlfriend as well.... lol!
Sainsbury's is a bit more expensive than Tesco, but has really nice stuff. Waitrose is for snobs and is ridiculously expensive. Asda is now owned my Walmart and is completely shit - only scumbags shop at Asda.
Tesco and Sainsbury's are my favourites.
Morrisons is very middle ground - used to be just for northerners like Tina, they are now the second biggest chain in the uk. I shop at morrisons when broke - and then move up to the waitrose in Malvern when flush... it smells better, the customers are all middle class wankers so I feel tough - downside - everything is literally twice as expensive.
Connie - thanks for putting me straight on the keys...always wondered. If you want some british cadburys I'm certain the UK gang would be happy to send some - then again you've got family just down the road from me don'tchya (Cheltenham - oh la la)...
[pant, pant, pant] That Cadbury Flake thingie looks MIGHTY GOOD.
I'd probably take it one step further... Once everyone had gotten their free "meal" I'd clean out the galley of anything I liked and bring it home to eat later. I am 1) that cheap and 2) that averse to cooking.
Connie - choccie package from UK? Don't say no!!
Karen - do you want a Cadbury parcel as well?
I would love a cadburys parcel! ;)
I'm absolutly sure good ol' Karen would love one too!
OMG, Herge, does a lonely 14 year-old boy touch himself??? YES!!! Yes, yes, yes!!!
Mmmmm.... stinky cheese.
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