I cleared my throat and said, “Ma’am I’m back. Would you mind letting sit down?” She looked at me in total surprise. Apologetically, she said “I’m sorry son. I thought you had gotten off the plane. That’s why I sat in your seat.” A friend of mine told me that he had seen a hostess on a charter flight to Germany let out a blood-curdling scream and jump on top of a man. The poor guy had gotten nauseous. He felt that he needed to open the window and get a good breath of fresh air. He had taken his pocketknife out and was prying at the plane’s window. When the hostess realized this, she began screaming and jumped on top of the man.
Of course the most classic story about “First Flights” is a Temel joke. Temel is the famous character in the Black Sea jokes that are the equivalent of Turkish “Aggie” jokes. Temel looked at the plane’s window, turned to the passenger sitting beside him and said, “What they say really is true.