A gate agent asked me last week if the pilot was running late. I was…

Imani Osei · Co-Pilot at Northstar Airlines · Newark, NJ

A gate agent asked me last week if the pilot was running late. I was in uniform with four stripes on my shoulder. I said he is standing right here and she laughed and apologised and it was fine, genuinely fine. It is the fortieth time and it is still a small tax I pay that the man beside me does not.

2 comments

Karen Whitfield

In 1996 a passenger asked me to bring him a blanket while I was doing the walkaround. Thirty years later the tax is smaller and it is not zero.

Grace Hollis

The word fine is doing heavy lifting in this post and everybody who has lived it knows exactly how much.