A former BOAC Captain (Ex Connies) used to tell a story about himself and his future wife (a BOAC Stewardess). They flew the UK - Austraila route regularly. On one particular flight, the aircraft arrived at Darwin with a major fault that required a couple of days stop-over.
Darwin airport, in 1949, was pretty basic. No baggage handlers etc, so the stewardess had to unload various pieces of the pax baggage to accomodate the unexpected stop-over. The Captain, in the meantime, was trying to arrange hotac for the pax.
Eventually, pax to hotac, baggage piled into truck, stewardess 'tuckered' out.
Once they got to the hotel, the Captain spied a 'native' of Darwin sitting on the verandah, complete with pants, vest, Aussie hat with corks and a cold bottle of beer.
He enquired, with his very plummy English accent, of the 'native Aussie', if he would assist the stewardess with the unloading of the baggage from the truck.
"Whats wrong with the sheila?" was the reply "Is she crook?"
Captain Jeff and Sally 'Sheila' Rees (RIP)
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