Your Flight Attendant Career will bring you to many places, foreign and domestic; depending on a few factors which include your layover time, your state of jet lag, the weather, and your crew.

Flight Attendants will actually spend time with the new recruits in Flight Attendant School. I remember having a Hispanic Flight Attendant named George assist our instructor a year ago in our Recurrent Training Class.

I had never flown with George before this trip. He seemed to be an ok guy. George said he was from Mexico City, and that’s where we were going.

We landed in Mexico City at 6 p.m. local time. We all did the Custom thing, and headed for the hotel. Our hotel was right on the airport property.

We checked in, George asked me, “Would you like to see Mexico City and get a bite to eat?”  We met downstairs a half-hour later.

George had family in Mexico City. One of his cousins picked us up, and drove us into town.
As we drove through the city it was very dark. I never had seen Mexico City in the light or dark. It reminded me of a “Batman” shot of what Gotham City looked like.

We were dropped off by his cousin and started walking around, in search of someplace to eat.

Residents of the neighborhood we were in open their homes as restaurants for dinner. Hard plastic chairs, portable tables, and open cooking help people make an extra income in the evening.

We sat down and were served. There weren’t any Club Sandwiches on the menu; hey, there wasn’t a menu!

We ate things I was afraid to ask what they may have been. At one point their looked to be noodles in my soup. I asked George, and he shook his head, with that yeah their noodles alright… I learned the next day that they weren’t noodles at all, they were cow intestines!

I didn’t die. I met some cool new people. I chewed on something that looked like a ligament, and went home to my club sandwich.

Moral of the story: Keep your mind open, and always think noodles.

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