I’ve always believed that if every flight attendant at my company were issued a shot of whiskey before each flight, her disposition would greatly improve and ours would be the airline of preference. But because your flight attendant are, hopefully, cold-stone sober (one of the FAR’s), we can easily identify the passengers who are not (another FAR). Even if you are on a flight to Las Vegas intoxication is not an excuse for being obnoxious or loud, and it can lead to ejection from a flight—preferable at the gate of departure.

So don’t bother saying good-bye to that airport bartender you’ve befriended wile drinking your last five drafts: you’ll be seeing him sooner than you think.

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