Sex and the Stewardess by Lawrence Block & John Warren Wells

Author:Lawrence Block & John Warren Wells [Block, Lawrence & Wells, John Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780447786699
Goodreads: 17203996
Publisher: Lawrence Block
Published: 2012-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Bambi—The Old Maid

“Men are always marrying us. Everyone knows this. It’s a joke, actually, the way the airlines have to keep recruiting and training like mad because they pick such beautiful girls and train them to be such ideal mates that we all marry right away and keep the circle going. You know, you no sooner get to stew school than you’ll be talking about the man you might marry some day and how long you expect to be flying before you find the right guy and quit.

“I was like that. I mean in terms of what I expected from this life, from being a stewardess. As a matter of fact I would go so far as to say that my major reason for becoming a stewardess was to find a good husband. Most of my friends had better reasons than I did. Some of them were just in love with the whole idea of flying. If they had been boys they would have wanted to become pilots, but they weren’t, so being a stewardess seemed like the next best thing to them. Others of us thought it was a glamorous occupation. And with others there was this need to get away from a certain family background or a home town. God knows the average girl has plenty to get away from by the time she’s grown up.

“I would give reasons like these myself, but looking back on it I have to admit that I never really thought about them that much. Now in a way this was sort of realistic on my part. Because if you stop to think about it, the girl who regards this profession as a career is making a big mistake, because in one way it really isn’t a career at all. I mean, there is no place to go from here. There is no room for advancement except that you could perhaps become a stew supervisor, but after all what percentage of stews could ever hope to go on to become a stew supervisor? Actually just a very small percentage of them at best. And outside of that there is really nothing. After maybe ten or fifteen years in the air you are just going to be out of a job with really nothing to show for it. And unlike modeling or athletics where you make a lot of money in your prime years, a stew earns enough to get by on, so when we talk about giving up the best years of our lives, that is honestly just about what it amounts to.

“In my own situation, I had very little chance where I was to make a good marriage. My home town had less than twenty-five hundred people in it. Unless you’ve actually grown up in a place like that I don’t think you can possibly appreciate what it is like. I think small towns like that can be a very good place to live. I think when you’re a small child it’s

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