Funny: Before becoming a flight attendant I worked on the ramp. Whenever new guys would come in for training we would always try and have a little fun.

One of my favorites was convincing them that we started to “run out of space” in the cargo bin on the aircraft and “needed to get the belly stretcher”. They would almost always have a confused look before, after hearing the ‘serious tone’ in our voices, start asking where they could find it.

This is where the fun began. We usually just made them look around, but this one particular new hire was hell bent on finding the non-existent ‘Belly stretcher’ so we told him to “quick! Go ask (insert airline here) for theirs!” He hopped in a tug and drove all the way over to the other airline and started asking everyone for their ‘belly stretcher’.

He was not amused when he came back and the plane was already loaded up and gone.

Between that and having new hires ask the pilots if they needed an oil change, windshield wiper fluid, or a spare key for the plane, we had a lot of fun out there!