Those were the days…
Posted on August 29, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Edener Benitez Fabella
29 August 2006
On a lighter subject. Don’t you wish travelling on a jet plane is back when flying was a status symbol? You wouldn’t get caught wearing nothing but your best (kahit na hiram lang) or other passengers might think you stowed? I hate to imagine being kicked out of a plane by the crew because I was wearing a pair of ‘Marcelo’ rubber shoes’! I doubt if a pair of Chuck Taylor or US Keds which only the sikats can own in the old days could have appeased fashion crazy travelling folks in the 50’s and 60’s. Kahit naghahatid ka lang noon sa Manila airport suot suot mo ang iyong pangburol!I remember my first foreign business trip (company sponsored) to Hong Kong back in the early 60’s on PAL’s DC9 jet service (boy! you’d think women rejected at LVN and Sampaguita pictures for movie roles were hired by PAL? Wala kang makitang flight stewardess na ka-edad ni Lola Basyang!). Hindi ako nakatulog on the eve of my trip. I am not sure if my excitement was over getting on a plane for the first time, or soon wearing ‘Amerikana’ and a brand new ‘Camara’ pair of shoes bought from Escolta to compliment my dress-to-kill psyche (ugh! uso na rin pala noon ang Pinoy yabang ano?). We were in mid flight when the Captain came on the air and announced Neil Armstrong landed on the moon he even let us listen to his famous - “One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind” That was July 20, 1969 but the one I cherished the most was getting lumped in a giant toothpaste tube like contraption hurtling into space being served by bevy of pretty Filipinas. Kahit di ako nauuhaw panay ang hingi ko nang tubig! Today not only are you packed in planes like sardines, stewardess seemed being recruited from an institute owned by Elizabeth Ramsey! Worse, your seatmate is wearing his mechanic’s overall while the lady on the front seat forgot to bring her ‘thing’ left rinsing in an efferdent bowl!
Have a great week, forum mates!!
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