Funny experience. Review on Air France

I had traveled via Air France from New Delhi to Paris, my first international flight back in Aug 1998 and I had the most outrageous funny experience. The flight was bearable but since this was my first long distance flight I had no idea what to expect and had no yardstick to compare its service, affordability, cleanliness, courtesy and promptness of the staff with any other airline.

After everyone was seated comfortably, as is customary the time for refreshments to be served had come. A pretty airhostess with drop dead gorgeous looks, a rarity nowadays on airlines, greeted me and asked me "Sir, what do you like to have". I said "Mam, can I have some milk". She said with a mix of disbelief  "milk"?.

I replied Yes with a mix of consternation. You would have to see her face to believe it. She had the most  unbelievably stunned face and then she looked herself down and gazed at her breasts. I was shocked myself and did not know what to say. Then she composed herself, smiled and said "Sir, you can have it". She went back to the storage area and poured a glass of cold milk and gave it to me.

The entire flight whenever refreshments were served, she would glance at me and serve only milk without me asking, now thats called Top Class service, a forgotten art nowadays. To this day, French women have never ceased to amaze me with their funny take on life.

On the same flight, I had 2 guys sitting besides me in a 2 seater. When the refreshments time came they ordered beer. The air hostess would provide them a bottle and move on. Within a short period of time they would again ask for beer and the girl would duly oblige them. I was curious to know what do they do with these drinks.

I realized that both the guys would drop the bottles into their respective bags. I was astonished. Those days you could ask for any number of refreshments and the air hostesses would oblige but nowadays fat chance. Anyway these guys accumulated 8-10 bottles on the flight.

When the aircraft landed at Paris I got down and was going to my forward destination, so I stopped by a restaurant to eat something and guess what I found those 2 fellow passengers sitting diagonally opposite to me in another restaurant at a short distance, happily talking and giggling hard.

Curiosity got the better of me, so I looked to see whatever happened to those accumulated beer bottles in the aircraft and to my amazement I saw both of them taking out one bottle at a time drinking it merrily. OMG, Crazy folks..