Coming back from London I changed planes in Nework NJ for the 3 hour trip to Houston. Company business so I was up front. I saw an Army Captain in camo head back to coach and asked the flight attendant if I could switch seats with him. she was very happy to agree and told me she would bring my free drinks back to me. After I got settled in next to an engineer from Shell a lady behind me tapped me on my back and said, “you just traded seats with that solider didn’t you?” I told her no big deal but she insisteted on using her drink coupon to buy me one. Well she must have been traveling with the whole choir or something because pretty soon I had Sky bottles lined up all the way across my fold down tray. The Shell guy was Muslim and couldn’t help me out so I was doing my best when the first class attendant came back with a big tumbler of vodka. Good thing I had a town car waiting for me in Houston. Served 24 years myself and can rember kindnesses like that so was happy happy happy to return the vibe.
Beautiful story, fellow Texan, but darnit you made my mascara run.