LUCY AND THE STEWARDESS

Yes, that's what they called them then. Stewardesses. I remember. In the days of TWA and PanAm and Northeast Yellowbirds. In thinking about Steven Slater (The now infamous/famous Jet Blue flight attendant) I started thinking about the story that went around decades ago, and still does I guess in some circles about Lucy warning flight attendants, oops, sorry, stewardesses never to look her in the eye when she spoke to them. Of course they would be looking in her eye when she told them, but the point of the pejorative story was that Lucy was a temperamental traveller who considered airline personnel beneath her in some way. I flew with Lucy many many times, ironically mostly on one class commuter plains and she could not have been sweeter to everybody from the ground personnel to those in then the "friendly skies". Lucy herself was pretty much a white knuckle traveller--would almost squeeze my hand off at takeoff and landing, but that's another blog. Rehearsals for I LOVED LUCY start on September 14 in Laguna, California.