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A few days ago I was working a long flight from Denver, Colorado to somewhere in Florida. This specific trip I was assigned to work on the bar cart in economy. It was a long day. I was tired, and a little irritable, and not exactly feeling my spry self. 

When a lady asked for a Coke Zero, I reached for the drawer of the bar cart to grab it. They're always in the back of the drawer, but the drawer was stuck. I knelt down on the ground and yanked and the drawer, but it wouldn't budge. I yanked harder and the whole drawer came flying out forcing me forward and hitting my head on the tray of the bar cart. 

"UGH, I yelled. "I hate this Job."
When people find out that you are a flight attendant, you get a lot of different responses. Some positive. Some negative. I think it's really funny when people find out and they just "HAVE to tell you about the HORRIBLE experience" they had a few weeks ago on a flight. It's nice when they tell you a good experience. 

People also have a lot of questions about the career. About our schedule. About our everyday lives. What we do on our off days. All kinds of questions. This is just a round up of some of my favorite. Not my favorite because they are smart more because they are bizarre.
There are a few things that you leave flight attendant training unprepared for. Six weeks of training packed with everything from applying bandaids to evacuating aircrafts to delivering a baby. There were very few surprises when I first started on the line. 

​One thing that I was unprepared for, was the how often I would be serving passengers that were traveling because of an undesirable situation, and how willing they would be to confide in me as a crew member. Passengers traveling home for funerals. Traveling to say goodbye to a loved one. To be with a family member in a time of need. They come to you, you make them as comfortable as possible, and you make yourself available to them as much they need.

I have never minded this. I enjoy helping people through times of need. I enjoy helping people in general. That's part of why I love my job so much. I get to help people. 

Though, this past week, I found myself on the other side of this situation. I was the one traveling home to say goodbye to a loved one. ​
Last Thursday afternoon, I woke up alone in a king-sized bed in the center of Rome, Italy. I picked up the trip the morning before and I had created a list of things that I wanted to see while on my 24-hour layover in this beautiful ancient city. 

But, I couldn't get out of my bed. It was 2:30 in the afternoon and I couldn't move. It was an undesirable combination of loneliness and depression (and a hit of anxiety) that sneaks up on me every once in awhile.

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