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 Like
an angrier, more street-wise Dave Barry, Hester zeroes in on bad trips,
in-flight fighting, intolerable co-workers and airline procedures,
broken airplanes, bad layovers and sex on airplanes (aka the "Mile
High Club"). "I once saw a drunken couple puke on each other
until they looked as if they'd emerged from a pool of oatmeal. I watched
a smug-faced man receiving high altitude fellatio from a woman he'd
met on the flight," as well as "full-blown airplane brawls,
passenger stampedes, a flight attendant in the midst of a nervous
breakdown, passengers in various stages of undress, and stressed-out
flyers attempting to open the emergency exit six miles above the Atlantic."
These and other stories (an onboard robbery in which $500,000 was
stolen on a 727) will be a revelation to anyone who has flown; Hester's
careful, well-paced descriptions show that what happens behind the
scenes is worse than one could imagine and that modern attendants
take this craziness for granted. Hester also provides a wide assortment
of various other true-life airline shenanigans taken from newspapers
and wire service reports, which adds to his book's lurid charm. |
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