Oh my goodness! Today was one of the most fun times I have had on a flight. Let me set the scene up for you. For a few months now I have been wanting to fly with a fun crew on a domestic trip. I don't tend to do a lot of domestic to begin with and when I do it is often with people who aren't to keen on getting outside of the box. I have been wanting to be with people who wanted to spice up the flight with fun announcements, game show host style! (Why, I don't know.) So today I got my chance! At first I was not happy about this trip. I was on call for 3 days and they called me to do a 6am deadhead to Salt Lake City, a 1 hour and 20 min flight, sit there for 2 hours and come right back to Seattle. So I technically only worked for 1 hour and 20 mins today. For my readers not familiar with flight attending work, this is a HORRIBLE trip! But the silver lining was I got back to Seattle with plenty of time to go to cosmic bingo! Ok, so my coworkers today were super excited to do game show host announcements too! I was so happy! So here the 4 of us are at 9am in SLC eating some orange chicken from the Manchu Wok, pretty sleep deprived and a bit loopy, practicing our game show host voices. People were definitely staring.
We get on board and Al, my fellow FA has a stroke of genius. "Let's download the "The Price is Right" theme song and play it over the PA!" I loved it! So we get our 1:04 min The Price is Right theme music ready. Al was going to be a 'Barker Beauty'/Vanna White to my Bob Barker/Alex Trebek. We were like school kids on a sunny day in June we were so ready for the passengers.
The time comes, we're in flight ready to make our main cabin service announcement, I get out the music and start to play it over the P.A.. People are quite confused. Their faces were priceless. Al comes running up from about mid cabin waving his arms in the air like a contestant on The Price is Right as I'm making my announcement for him to 'come on down.' In today's 'showcase' we had Coke products, sodas and juices, modeled Barker Beauty style by Al up and down the aisle. For our health conscious passengers we offered, "zero calories, healthy water.' Coffee and tea were followed by a very quick 'fine print' type voice that you hear on commercials. "Coffee and Tea are available on today's flight. This service is valid on the entire flight. We will give substitutions and give refills." Ect. ect. All spoken is a very quick voice I am guessing no one understood.
Then we moved onto the Jeopardy portion of the flight. Al was give a category, 'Onboard Amenities" and the clue: Peanuts, Pretzels and Cookies. He had to give the the correct answer, in the form of a question of course. "What are our choices for today's onboard complimentary snack?" Good job Al! Next, a tougher challenge awaited. "The answer is $7." The passengers really liked when Al acted like he was thinking really hard about it. "What is the price of liquor and wine?" he says with an unsure tone of voice. Very good Al! People are into it now, especially those in the rows closest to us. Then for our last 'game', Name That Price." we were going to do a 'higher'/'lower' type game, but when I asked "How much are our snack boxes and beer?" The man in the first row raised his hand to answer! So we got some passenger participation going! It was great fun and the people seemed to really enjoy it. We ended with a simple, "This can all be yours, if the price is right!" Now if we could only get them to pay attention to the safety video as well!
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