"Say Jimmy, you ever had a vodka martini?"
Posted on 08/04/2010 8:49:31 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
Hand sanitizer, probably.
Vodka does not smell.
I thought you couldn’t smell vodka on breath.
Sounds like the pilot might have a nice slander lawsuit against her, with plenty of witnesses and a breathalizer test to back him up. She would have done better to keep her head down. Seems she was looking for a lawsuit and now she may well fine one. Against her.
I think it would have even be more traumatic for her to be forced into flying the same aircraft. ; )
“They told me they take these accusations very seriously and that the captain and his crew did not want me on his flight,”
Touche. I wouldn’t want her on my flight either after accusing me of something like that. It would be like having to see a person who screamed rape and then after it was found out that didn’t happen you would have to drive them somewhere. No thanks. There are many other flights to get on.
Vodka doesn’t smell.
"Say Jimmy, you ever had a vodka martini?"
Could’ve even been original Listerene.
It’s likely there is more to the story than this.
She may have been making a loud fuss, complaining openly to others about her fears, causing anxiety, and possibly refusing to back down when confronted with evidence.
I bit like shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater. She may even believe it herself, but chaos and panic is still the result.
“Vodka does not smell.”
True, by itself it doesn’t have a very strong smell, but if someone drinks, they have alcohol breath ... the metabolites from the alcohol give you a really funny smell on your breath. When you start drinking, the alcohol’s being absorbed and being metabolized ... but ketones don’t get metabolized. They’re in your blood, and your blood and your lungs exchange — that’s how you breathe — and these things will come out in your lungs, and you’ll be breathing them for hours. So there’s no way to cover it up and totally fool everybody all the time after a certain point .. the woman might have had an alcoholic in the family ... when you are raised with a vodka drinker, you know what it smells like from a mile away.
As one who grew up in the household of an alcoholic parent whose main drink was vodka, thinking no one could smell it on his breath, I will assure you that the only one who cannot smell the vodka is likely the one who drank it.
“I thought you couldn’t smell vodka on breath.”
You can’t, unless it’s been drunk within the last minute or so.
Some doctor once told me that you aren’t smelling any particular liquor on someone’s breath, you’re smelling the oxidized alcohol being expelled from his body.
Sounds like someone may be trying to throw a monkey wrench into the works of the airlines by trying a new tactic. (For what reason, who knows.)
IMHO
True 'dat.
Bah, if I was the captain, I wouldn't want that miserable harpy on my flight either. Does the man now have a report to the FAA that he was suspected of drinking? She threatened his ability to earn a living. Get on a new flight bitch.
Just maybe, he had been drinking?
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