My flight attendant on the trip back to Stockholm Bromma had on jeans. I found it odd and interesting simultaneously. The boisterous guy in the seat across the aisle thought so too as he pointed it out to his buddies. He ended up flirting with her on and off throughout the hour flight. I think it was part of his boisterousness persona.
I think the jeans were a part of her flight attendant’s uniform. Sweden is ahead of the times on the dress-down trends of the world. Maybe little Kullaflyg (servicing Ängelholm, Visby, Mora and Bromma) is a global trendsetter.
Today was my business travel debut. For most of you that’s old hat, I know. But when you’re your own boss and your customer base is local, the closest you get to business travel is writing off business-related trips on your tax forms. Today was my first free ride.
The grand adventure brought me across Sweden to the northwest corner of Skåne, to Höganäs, home of Sweden’s traditional stoneware pottery (well, birthplace more like, today the pottery is owned by KostaBoda in Småland.) Skåne is one of my favorite regions of Sweden. It is Sweden’s “breadbasket” with rolling farmland and quaint farmhouses with a very long enveloping coastline. The great tease that this trip was, I didn’t see much of it.
- The metropolis I visited today
But I did very much enjoy having a flight attendant in jeans. More new trends Kullaflyg.
Höganäs is an OK place to visit.
I have got the bus from Helsingborg to Höganäs a few times. It is very friendly.
It is worth a visit.
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I suspect that we have over-shot the mark regarding casual attire and behaviour in our public lives.
I am not advocating a return to the grey flannel nightmare of the 1950s, but it does seem, as a society, that we need to be able to differentiate between our professional lives and our private lives. When we are in public, there are many situations when we do not want to relate to other people as individuals, but rather as agents of the particular enterprise.
On aeroplanes, the last thing I would want is to have to respond to members of the flight crew as individual people. Bring me my alcoholic beverages with a minimum of interaction, and let me return to my visualisation exercises.
“I am in a green glade, by a cool stream. The sun is warm. The sky is blue and the tall grass is gently swaying…”
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@Andrea. I hope to get back to Höganäs and see more of it. I never even saw the coastline.
@Gustav. The flight attendant was clearly in some form of uniform, but it seemed only from the waist up. I think you’ve got a point there about wanting the crew to be visibly distinctive from the other passengers. And you really ought to try some “face your fear” therapy. A skydive?
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At the moment that I would be expected to leap from the plane, my over-developed sense of self-preservation would kick in, and it would not be pretty.
Sometimes when I am in a hurry or forgetful, I will do things like walk through doors without opening them, and take the doorframe out of the wall. I also have a tendency to accidentally take door knobs off by twisting too hard when I am tense, and to shatter chairs with sudden movements.
I would hate to get nervous and break someone’s aeroplane.
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@Gustav. I have a great visual of you in my mind right now. I picture you to be about 6′5″ maybe 225 and handsome. I bet you would be very funny and interesting to talk to on an airplane. You have a charming way of explaining yourself. Have a good day.
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@Gustav. If you break the plane, the best way to save yourself is to jump and use the parachute. Catch-22 there big boy.
@believe. I understand that all Jamts, like our Gustav, fit that general description.
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Congrats on your first business flight. And jeans as airline uniform is kind of straight-laced compared to the salacious outfits worn by the stewardesses at Hooters airlines some years ago…
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