Yes! But of course that is what home is for. To share your frustrations with your nearest and dearest.
Many is the time I have sought sympathy and succour from the other half after a particularly frustrating day with those Pursers who will insist on coming in in the middle of a particularly protracted clearance to inform me about something "vital", or want re-inforcement of some or other cabin matter that I am happier leaving to their own judgement, rather than having to recollect some company edict that I may have read in the distant past somewhere. Cabin crew always seem to have a veritable "Doomsday book" of endless edicts and pronouncements bestowed upon them, that rarely (thank god!) ( and please don't think the lack of capital G in god was an oversight), make there way into my in-tray. Anyway I digress.
As the other half perhaps unfortunately is also cabin crew, she seems strangely reluctant to universely offer the desired level of agreement and sympathy that I may be seeking. Though this sometimes results in the children retracting their necks and creeping off to any other room with a working TV set or computer console, to the background noise of embattled parents, it does occaisonaly result in some subsequent introspection, though almost never an admission of fault on my part of course.
If you have teenage children then you are indeed at an advantage, since it really will not take long for you to appreciate that however frustrating things may be at work, nothing but nothing could be worse than this !!!
