I have a gift for you, it's a pyramid!

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I was working a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle, pre-food poisoning, serving pre-departure drinks in first class, while my second FA was in the forward galley greeting people as they boarded. I turned my back to the boarding door to place a drink on someone’s tray table when I heard a passenger say:

Hey there! I have a gift for you!

I turned around to look at him and he added:

Oh! and one for you too!

My first instinct is to think that it’s a non-rev airline employee who brought us chocolates or cookies, as that happens a lot; or maybe it was a really nice passenger.

I know my Second FA thought the same thing, because after this happened his response was “I thought we were getting chocolate, and I was all excited.”

Chocolate, we did not receive. What did we get?

We got a CD invitation to join a get-rich-quick money scheme. My other FA and I both looked at each other, at a loss for words and said “thanks!” The  pax walked toward the aft waving “you’re welcome”, but still in our area, the other FA threw his copy in the trash and I said “oh, I’ll just put this right here. Thanks”

I thought that was kind of ballsy! Here you’re making it sound like a gift for someone, in the service industry no less (i.e. tipping), and its something which in turn, benefits you, since it states “I will be your personal mentor!” I’m sure you will, after I pay the $300 “activation” fee and join under you. I mean, it’s ironic and funny in the fact that he handed two FAs at a Low Cost Carrier a DVD to earn “money now,” since its widely known we don’t make tons of it and we’re in a recession, but seriously?!

Anyway, that is definitely one of the stranger gifts I’ve received since I’ve started flying back in 2005. That encounter was almost as bad as a first officer I worked with at the end of last month that tried to sell all of the flight attendants a motorized bike for the LOW LOW price of $2000, a months paycheck. Oh, okay, because I need a bike at home in Phoenix where its 117 degrees all summer. “Well, that’s why its perfect. It’s motorized.”

No thanks, my car works just fine. Call me when you’re bike has air conditioning as well.

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