Can we take a moment and discuss how it is that grown adults act like six year olds, sometimes?
At work the other day, I was doing drink service and came across a row of two men sleeping and one lady awake by the window. I asked her what she wanted to drink and reached over the two sleeping men to hand her the beverage. I moved on to the next row. When it was time to move the drink cart and I was already three rows past the sleeping row, I noticed the man in the middle throwing a fit.
I kid you not, he threw his hands up in the hair, slammed his tray table up, and then starting shoving things into the back pocket of the chair in front of him. He kept muttering, “I can’t believe this!” and sighing heavily. What in the world was going on? Can you guess it?
This man was throwing a fit for not getting a drink. Seriously. He was pissed off because I didn’t wake him up to ask him what his beverage of choice was. I never have and never intend to wake up a sleeping person to ask them what they want to drink. My coworker asked me what was going on, and I just told her to ask him what he wanted to drink since I already passed him and he was sleeping when I did.
It’s not the end of the world when you don’t get a drink during a flight, ya know. You can get one at anytime (besides take off, landing, and taxiing, obviously). All you have to do is ask (nicely, helps!).
What I don’t understand is how a mid fifty year old man can throw a fit like a six year old for something so little. There are bigger problems in life than missing a coca cola because you were catching up on your beauty sleep.
//end rant.
Festive M&M’s get me every single time. How can you resist red and green for Christmas, pink and red for Valentine’s, red, white, and blue for the 4th of July, and vibrant pastel colors for Easter? Beats me. I get them every month. This recipe from How Sweet Eats makes a wonderfully chewy cookie. It’s a great base for mix ins, especially for all those holiday M&M’s.
They’re called giant cookies because you can scoop them out as 1/4 cup portions and bake them into large cookies, but I chose to make them normal sized cookies. Your choice.
Ingredients
- 2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) of salted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup m&m’s (or something else that you love)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugars. Stir in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla.
- Gradually add flour and baking soda until dough comes together. Fold in the m&m’s.
- Roll into 2 tablespoon sized balls and place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly brown.
Those cookies look so yummy and I might throw a fit if I missed out on one of them (joking). How funny that you were being the most polite and he could not see this. I hope lovely people fill your working days and nights this week with a lot of “thank you for not waking me would you mind if i COULD GRAB A DRINK NOW THAT i AM AWAKE PLEASE” FINISHED WITH A POLITE SMILE. XXX
I traveled a lot for several years and I’ve never seen an attendant wake someone up. Could you imagine if you did wake him up? he could have been just as volatile. want to see adults act at their worst i’ve always said, but them in a line or “trap” them on an airplane.
For what it’s worth. My father isn’t a pleasant person when he’s woken. in fact, after he’s calmed down and more awake we’ll ask him about and he has no memory of his outburst. he can throw things, yell, clinch the jaw – he’s totally unaware of it. i’m convinced it’s a sleep disorder of some sort.
i just made these today! what a coincidence!