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German accent, smiles and offers us any table we want. I ask why is the place so empty, and she says that it is raining. When that happens in Reno, people just don’t go out. Sounds reasonable to me. Maybe we should have stayed at the hotel ourselves.
But the waitress turns out to be exceptionally friendly, and after we share that we are professional pilots, we get into a long conversation about her accent. She reveals she is a former TWA stewardess who has lived and traveled throughout most of the world. She says she was born in Germany, but after school was unable to get hired Lufthansa because her English “was not good enough,” yet then was immediately hired by TWA because of her great facility in languages. Her level of attention as a waitress is reminiscent of someone accustomed to working the first-class section of TWA Lockheed L1011s in the good old airline days, when service meant something, and the three crew members in the pointy end of the airplane got the best treatment of all.
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