Excellent comment k-lo. People say that the job as Cabin Crew is unskilled, however most people probably couldn't pass a crew course. Unless you have done it, you don't actually know what it really involves, I remember being amazed myself when I first started.
At the end of the day, it's the crew that will be doing their best to utilise all their SKILLS to save everybody's bacon should the metaphorical crap hit the fan. The passengers won't be thinking they are there for tea and coffee then.
Cabin Crew deserve respect - god, if my aircraft should ever be hijacked I'll be sealed in a nice little flight deck... it will be the Cabin Crew that deal with it, I and my Captain will be relying on them. I've been there as cabin crew and I will take everything I learnt with me into the flight deck, it taught me a lot. I just wish that some people were so willing to be educated.
Safe flying everybody...