Pilot = Women are impressed???

[JumpCaptain]

They told us at Embry-Riddle not to worry about woman, since we will never need one.

:laugh:

 

[EDUC8-or]

I don't have to tell women I'm a pilot, they can tell by my company ID when I hit the bars. They're always impressed until I get drunk and stumble into them and spill my drink on their shirt. It sure is hard to see in those dark and smoky bars with my aviators on.

 

[GVFlyer]

When a guy tries to impress me with the whole "I'm a pilot" routine, I find it hilarious because I'm also a pilot and I know half of the fluff you just told me was BS. I usually don't tell people right away...I say I'm in the high speed pressurized aluminum tubing industry and then let them dribble on about being a pilot.

Evil woman, but cute screen name.


GV

 

[mcjohn]

One time I forgot my I.D. in a bar and whipped out my TWO certificates. Yes that right! TWO whole licences (commercial and CFI)...................
Can't really remember anything after that except being forcefully removed from the building.

My wife gets turned on by my uniform. Like I have said, I am a FO (3 stripes) in a C172! Has nothing to do with being a pilot though. It could be a cop, fireman, marine, whatever uniform and she'd get all frisky.

 

[leardawg]

I've had impressed reactions when I tell people I'm a pilot. I've gotten out of a speeding ticket because I was in uniform and "on my way to get my flight on time." I won a custody case over my daughter; my lawyer told me courts generally look at some professions as indicative of "stability, responsibilty and maturity". Bank loan officers, apartment rental managers, etc. seem duly impressed and pleased of my "risk factor".But I've NEVER been laid or gotten to 2nd base because I'm a pilot! (In other words, pulling out the "pilot card" never made an ounce of difference).

 

[GVFlyer]

The reactions that I get from females fall into four general categories, and this is after them having to ask me what I do--I'll always tell someone, but only if they ask first. I'm modest.

Anyway, the categories are:

1. Being sociopathicly attracted because they think that pilots are risk takers and womanizers.
2. Being impressed because they see that it's unique, complex, and interesting work.
3. Apathy; ambivalence.
4. Avoiding me because they think that I'm a risk taker and/or a womanizer.

Ideally, I look for reaction #2. (Read I'm extremely unlikely to reciprocate interest unless I get reaction #2.)

-Goose

Good analysis. You can always work the bad boy angle. "That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous."


GV

 

[blzr]

honestly, you can get more action by telling them you are a roofer. It has worked for me on a coulpe of occasions. I played the pilot card when I was a student pilot and it didn't work and I felt like a wanna-be so I didn't use that one again.

 

[RichardRambone]

I tell them I'm a manager at the Geek Squad. Works everytime.

 

[GVFlyer]

honestly, you can get more action by telling them you are a roofer. It has worked for me on a coulpe of occasions. I played the pilot card when I was a student pilot and it didn't work and I felt like a wanna-be so I didn't use that one again.

Do you have a cool uniform? Chicks dig a man in uniform and every girls crazy "'bout a sharp dressed man".


Clean shirt, new shoes
and I don't know where I am goin' to.
Silk suit,black tie,
I don't need a reason why.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.

gold watch, diamond ring,
I ain' missin'not a single thing.
And cufflinks, stick pin
when I step out I'm gonna do you in.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.

Top coat, top hat,
I don't worry coz my wallet's fat.
Black shades, white gloves,
lookin' sharp and lookin' for love.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.



GV





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[CrimsonEclipse]

Why is that? Are people sick of the wanna be "Riddle" pilots? Or just the enormous amount of air traffic?
just wondering never hung out around that area

They're know as Riddle Diddles locally. I'd call myself a sewer shoveler trainee
before I'd ID myself as a pilot in Daytona.

CE



(just sayin')

 

[CFIcare]

Just tell them you are a pilot. It is stupid to come up with all that crap like "I'm in transportation" and the pressurized tube thing. It is stupid. Why don't you just say what your profession is? Are you embarassed? This goes for everyone. What is the big deal about just saying you are a pilot?

If you were a doctor, or a lawyer, or a teacher, or a network engineer, you wouldn't beat around the bush.

Hey gkrangers....uh..it's supposed to be funny....

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

Ladies seem impressed for a few minutes, maybe an hour, and then it ends.

My whole career has been a waste because of this.

 

[A Squared]

Hey gkrangers....uh..it's supposed to be funny....

Umm, I think that's the point, it's not, really. I'm a bit skeptical that the scene always plays out quite like you say. Even the freshest newbies have all heard (or used) the line : "I'm in high speed aluminum tubing" (yuk yuk yuk snort)

 

[Lead Sled]

This sounds about right...

Dear Abby:
I'm faced with a major moral dilema. I'm engaged to be married soon and I haven't been totally up-front with my fiance. I come from a highly dysfunctional family - my father is on death row for killing a priest during a robbery attempt. My mother is a crack addicted prosititute. My older brother is in prison on drug and child pornography charges and my sister is in a mental hospital after attempting to kill her family. If all that wasn't enough, my younger brother just became an airline pilot. My question to you is should I tell my fiance about my brother the airline pilot?

Signed,

Wondering in Winnemucca

 

[Gofish]

You know what...the pilot occupation is the last thing I ever tell a woman (or anybody for that matter) and only if asked. Really...who cares...its just a job and doesn't have anything to do with life. Better to talk to a woman and find out what makes her tick; exploring every little nuance of her psyche and then hopefully...explore her body.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

This sounds about right...

Dear Abby:
I'm faced with a major moral dilema. I'm engaged to be married soon and I haven't been totally up-front with my fiance. I come from a highly dysfunctional family - my father is on death row for killing a priest during a robbery attempt. My mother is a crack addicted prosititute. My older brother is in prison on drug and child pornography charges and my sister is in a mental hospital after attempting to kill her family. If all that wasn't enough, my younger brother just became an airline pilot. My question to you is should I tell my fiance about my brother the airline pilot?

Signed,

Wondering in Winnemucca

LeadSled....you owe me a keyboard.

CE

 

[AA717driver]

I've always said the quickest way to get laid is to not shave for a couple of days, throw on a Carhart jacket, nice (but dusty) work boots and drive a Ford F-150 (with the stainless steel tool locker in the bed). Go to any bar where they do line dancing and you're set.

You don't want to look too scruffy so they'll believe you when you tell them you're a job site supervisor. TC

 

[h25b]

I've always said the quickest way to get laid is to not shave for a couple of days, throw on a Carhart jacket, nice (but dusty) work boots and drive a Ford F-150 (with the stainless steel tool locker in the bed). Go to any bar where they do line dancing and you're set.

You don't want to look too scruffy so they'll believe you when you tell them you're a job site supervisor. TC

By the incredible detail you use in making this suggestion it would appear that you have indeed tried this out...

 

[Lead Sled]

By the incredible detail you use in making this suggestion it would appear that you have indeed tried this out...

His down fall came when he didn't change out of his "Will Fly 4 Food" t-shirt.

'Sled

 

[RichardRambone]

Just call a "service" and pay her to leave. So much less heartache.....

 

[GVFlyer]

You know what...the pilot occupation is the last thing I ever tell a woman (or anybody for that matter) and only if asked. Really...who cares...its just a job and doesn't have anything to do with life. Better to talk to a woman and find out what makes her tick; exploring every little nuance of her psyche and then hopefully...explore her body.

Ahhhh...a SNAP.


GV

 

[GVFlyer]

I've always said the quickest way to get laid is to not shave for a couple of days, throw on a Carhart jacket, nice (but dusty) work boots and drive a Ford F-150 (with the stainless steel tool locker in the bed). Go to any bar where they do line dancing and you're set.

You don't want to look too scruffy so they'll believe you when you tell them you're a job site supervisor. TC

Ya gotta be careful doin' this kinda stuff. At Gulfstream, a fifty-something pilot ended up married to a 22 year old this way.



GV

 

[av8rbama]

On our second date, I brought my g/f to my place to watch a movie & drink a bottle of wine. She saw a pic of me the day I first soloed a glider (it was taken just before we started dating). Gotta admit, it was a great pic... sitting in the middle of a farm field, canopy open, strapped in, ballcap and shades giving a thumbs up. She thought the glider thing was way cool and was very impressed. Right on, this is going to be my night... I thought. In the same stack of pics, she found a pic of me on the day I'd taken my instrument checkride (taken about 6 months prior) and just laughed... it was quite a dorky pic next to a mighty 172. To say the least, we ended up watching the entire movie if you know what I mean.

It's all good though, that g/f ended up being the wonderful woman with whom I'm about to celebrate our first wedding anniversary.

 

[mcjohn]

My wife loves to fly with me. She just thinks it's soooooo romaaaaantic to be squeezed into a little 152 together. And then chunks fly.

 

[MagicRat]

This is a variation on this topic that maybe some of you fellow married guys have also encountered:

It seems like whenever people ask my wife what her husband does for a living and she says pilot, their first response is something along the lines of:

1. "Oh, does he cheat on you?"

2. "How can you trust him?"

3. Some other variation on pegging all of us as womanizers/cheaters.

It pisses me off that people I've never even met would make such a judgment about me, and I think it can't help but hurt my wife's feelings a little bit, even though she deflects it well.

For the record, I've never cheated on anyone I've ever dated, least of all my wife. And I never will.

But I wish I had a smart-ass response for these incredibly rude strangers whose first assumption upon learning that I'm a pilot is that I must therefore be a scumbag. Any suggestions?

 

[CFIcare]

Umm, I think that's the point, it's not, really. I'm a bit skeptical that the scene always plays out quite like you say. Even the freshest newbies have all heard (or used) the line : "I'm in high speed aluminum tubing" (yuk yuk yuk snort)

Good Lord...you are a bit skepictal? I was being humorous in reference to the topic. No I haven't actually said that seriously. Why don't you get all ruffled at they guy who said he's the manager at the Geek Squad. Do you think he actually says this? Maybe he does, but probably not. It was a humorous comment, which, due to the overly literal interpretation by a few, has lost it's punch. Jeez.

 

[Lead Sled]

This is a variation on this topic that maybe some of you fellow married guys have also encountered:

It seems like whenever people ask my wife what her husband does for a living and she says pilot, their first response is something along the lines of:

1. "Oh, does he cheat on you?"

2. "How can you trust him?"

3. Some other variation on pegging all of us as womanizers/cheaters.

It pisses me off that people I've never even met would make such a judgment about me, and I think it can't help but hurt my wife's feelings a little bit, even though she deflects it well.

For the record, I've never cheated on anyone I've ever dated, least of all my wife. And I never will.

But I wish I had a smart-ass response for these incredibly rude strangers whose first assumption upon learning that I'm a pilot is that I must therefore be a scumbag. Any suggestions?

That happened to my wife once. Her response... "I told them that if that ever happened they could have me." Then she mentioned something about the book "The ransom of Red Chief" and started to laugh. :0

Actually, when my oldest daughter was in elementary school one of her teachers asked her what her daddy did for a living. Her answer: "Nothing, he's a pilot."

'Sled

 

[RichardRambone]

Good Lord...you are a bit skepictal? I was being humorous in reference to the topic. No I haven't actually said that seriously. Why don't you get all ruffled at they guy who said he's the manager at the Geek Squad. Do you think he actually says this? Maybe he does, but probably not. It was a humorous comment, which, due to the overly literal interpretation by a few, has lost it's punch. Jeez.

Dont be mistaken I have actually said that. Its funny to be something so ridiculous at a bar b/c who gives a shat. Ive been a veterinarian, Lear pilot on layover from Denver, a bartender, a lowly aircraft cleaner (not a lie), aircraft sales person, 7th year senior among other lies. Matter of fact, Id like to take a poll and see what you guys have tried and pulled off in your day. b/c we all know we're only pilots when the cute ones are around.

 

[A Squared]

Good Lord...you are a bit skepictal? I was being humorous in reference to the topic. No I haven't actually said that seriously. Why don't you get all ruffled at they guy who said he's the manager at the Geek Squad. Do you think he actually says this? Maybe he does, but probably not. It was a humorous comment, which, due to the overly literal interpretation by a few, has lost it's punch. Jeez.

*edit* OK, I was being unnecessrily harsh. I apologize

 

[AA717driver]

By the incredible detail you use in making this suggestion it would appear that you have indeed tried this out...

Hey, that's what works at the Edinburg outlet mall...

P.S.--I tried wearing my pilot uniform at the Franklin Wal-Mart but they thought I was a security guard. TC