what do F/As do off duty?
For the flight attendants book I'm doing, I'm looking for stories of interesting things that F/As--and particularly stewardesses from "the old days"--did when they weren't working. Things like interesting volunteerism, writing a book, working as an actress or model, playing a semi-pro sport, running an interesting business on the side, etc...
As an example (that I'm of course using) former Pan Am stewardess Betty Haas Pfister, who recently died at 90, owned a war surplus Bell P-39 Airacobra, a front-line fighter during the early days of WWII, and she actively air-raced it. Meaning that she was probably a hotter pilot than some of the captains with whom she flew.
A number of stewardesses did volunteer work at Southeast Asia orphanages and refugee camps as a result of their having crewed aboard aircraft carrying troops to and from Vietnam, as another example.
Any other good stories out there?