# 2: Coffee Tea or Me
A book writen in the 60s about the life and adventures of two stewardesses. Not sure what I was thinking when I bought this one.
I'm about half way through and was surprised to see the attitude towards women, homosexuality and drugs. There is a whole chapter bashing gays ... let me leave a little taste
"We can only see one solution. We advocate the offering of half-fare tickets to all homosexuals. Why not? They give reduced fares to everyone else. By doing it for homosexuals, we could at least pinpoint them and assign seats accordingly. Of course, this would bring up the problem of whether to seat them together and put up with a non-stop flight of male hanky-panky, or intermingle them with normal passengers and suffer the consequences. Either way, we know there'd be trouble. But uou have to admit a half-fare for perverts is an interest [sic] concept, no matter what its pitfalls."(149)
They authors never admit to having done anything less than 100% moral and fully correct. The only time she was with a married man was when she didn't know that the man was married. His wife calls and Trudy quickly agrees to break off the relationship. They do have some sexual escapades. She is completely and utterly offended by an offer to transport pot from Mexico to New Yorker. Trudy discuss it with Rachel and agree that the correct thing is to let the police know - buchonas! - but they decide not to at the end, all she wants is to "obliterate the entire affair from my life"
I also read elsewhere that the book was actually written by a man, based on the stories told to him by Rachel and Trudy. Not sure about this one. Anyway, I am going to finish it off. It is interesting to see the world from their eyes .. the close-mindedness of the 60s, the importance of travel, the fact that they would and could sneak people on the plane ... things that are very different from the world in 2006.
I'm about half way through and was surprised to see the attitude towards women, homosexuality and drugs. There is a whole chapter bashing gays ... let me leave a little taste
"We can only see one solution. We advocate the offering of half-fare tickets to all homosexuals. Why not? They give reduced fares to everyone else. By doing it for homosexuals, we could at least pinpoint them and assign seats accordingly. Of course, this would bring up the problem of whether to seat them together and put up with a non-stop flight of male hanky-panky, or intermingle them with normal passengers and suffer the consequences. Either way, we know there'd be trouble. But uou have to admit a half-fare for perverts is an interest [sic] concept, no matter what its pitfalls."(149)
They authors never admit to having done anything less than 100% moral and fully correct. The only time she was with a married man was when she didn't know that the man was married. His wife calls and Trudy quickly agrees to break off the relationship. They do have some sexual escapades. She is completely and utterly offended by an offer to transport pot from Mexico to New Yorker. Trudy discuss it with Rachel and agree that the correct thing is to let the police know - buchonas! - but they decide not to at the end, all she wants is to "obliterate the entire affair from my life"
I also read elsewhere that the book was actually written by a man, based on the stories told to him by Rachel and Trudy. Not sure about this one. Anyway, I am going to finish it off. It is interesting to see the world from their eyes .. the close-mindedness of the 60s, the importance of travel, the fact that they would and could sneak people on the plane ... things that are very different from the world in 2006.
posted by guchix at 4:28 PM
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Roger that
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