Is EXP status on AA helping make me an alcoholic?
Jan 11, 2009, 5:57 pm
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Is EXP status on AA helping make me an alcoholic?
Having just been EXP for a few months, I find it hard in FC to resist the "Sir, what would you like to drink"....I'm not a bloody Mary fan, so I have limits...typically 12 noon (it's noon somewhere, right?) before having my beer, or my personal favorite, Glenlivet, of which they have 2 on each "catered" flight on AA domestic (which means if there is a DFW-ELP turnaround, you may be out of luck on the ELP-DFW leg).
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Jan 11, 2009, 6:03 pm
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Having just been EXP for a few months, I find it hard in FC to resist the "Sir, what would you like to drink"....I'm not a bloody Mary fan, so I have limits...typically 12 noon (it's noon somewhere, right?) before having my beer, or my personal favorite, Glenlivet, of which they have 2 on each "catered" flight on AA domestic (which means if there is a DFW-ELP turnaround, you may be out of luck on the ELP-DFW leg).
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
There are people who do not drink alcoholic beverages, then there is willpower and also, the other AA.
Cheers,
--J
Jan 11, 2009, 6:06 pm
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Jan 11, 2009, 6:13 pm
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Having just been EXP for a few months, I find it hard in FC to resist the "Sir, what would you like to drink"....I'm not a bloody Mary fan, so I have limits...typically 12 noon (it's noon somewhere, right?) before having my beer, or my personal favorite, Glenlivet, of which they have 2 on each "catered" flight on AA domestic (which means if there is a DFW-ELP turnaround, you may be out of luck on the ELP-DFW leg).
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Jan 11, 2009, 7:51 pm
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Having just been EXP for a few months, I find it hard in FC to resist the "Sir, what would you like to drink"....I'm not a bloody Mary fan, so I have limits...typically 12 noon (it's noon somewhere, right?) before having my beer, or my personal favorite, Glenlivet, of which they have 2 on each "catered" flight on AA domestic (which means if there is a DFW-ELP turnaround, you may be out of luck on the ELP-DFW leg).
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Anyone else find themselves embibing more than they would if they weren't EXP ? After 100,000 miles plus with AA in 2008 should I feel the least bit guilty!!
Jan 11, 2009, 8:39 pm
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my kinda Sheriff. no, DUI is definitely someting to refrain from doing, esp. in Maricopa Co.
Jan 11, 2009, 8:58 pm
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Well once I had the (mis) fortune of having 6 (yes six) beverages from MCI to ORD. that is a 90 minute flight only 60 of in the air.... that was record breaking service I might add. the FA got one of my "applause" tickets for that service. (or two... I don't recall that flight clearly for some reason)
Jan 11, 2009, 9:05 pm
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Yes. At least until the Glenlivit is gone.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:48 pm
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Jan 11, 2009, 11:17 pm
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Of course the word is imbibe, as opposed to embibe, and I find that I do have more drinks on a plane than otherwise. However, I don't carry the drinking beyond the plane, so, no, the extra drinking on the plane doesn't make me an alcoholic.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Jan 11, 2009, 11:27 pm
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If you count the two G&T's I have in the AC pre-flight and then the four or five on the way to or from JFK. Then yes, I am becoming an alcoholic.
Jan 12, 2009, 3:35 am
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Jan 12, 2009, 5:11 am
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