SOS

[geardown]

A Boeing 777 wide-body jetliner was lumbering along at 800km/hour at 33,000 feet when a cocky F-17 fighter jet flashed by at Mach 2.

The F17 pilot decided to show off.

On his state of the art radio (that is part of his state of the art 3D & million dollar headset), the F17 youngster told the 777 pilot, “Hey Captain, watch this!”

He promptly went into a barrel roll, followed by a steep, unimaginable vertical climb.
He then finished with a sonic boom as he broke the sound barrier, as the F17 screamed down at impossible G’s before levelling off at almost sea level.

The F-17 pilot asked the 777 pilot what he thought of that?

The 777 pilot said, “That was truly impressive, but watch this!”

The 777 chugged along for about 5 minutes at the steady 800km/hour, and then the 777 pilot came back on and said, “What did you think of that?”

Puzzled, the cocky F-17 pilot asked, “So WHAT did you do?”

The 777 pilot chuckled and said, "I stood up, stretched my legs, walked to the back, went to the can to take a whiz, then got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon roll and secured a date for the next 3 nights in a five star hotel with the lead flight attendant paid for by the company!"

LESSON OF LIFE:
When you are young and foolish, speed and flash may seem like a good thing!
When you get older and smarter, comfort and dullness is not such a bad thing!
It's called S.O.S.

Slower, Older, and Smarter!

[Nighthawk117]

[Shadowcaster]

Cheers
Rich

[B0ikat]

Similar to that is the F-4 Phantom and a B-52. After the Phantom pulled its little stunts, the B-52 pilot calls over and said, "Pretty impressive, but can you do this?"

The F-4 pilot doesn't see anything different, and asks, "Do what?"

"I just shut down two engines."

[FlexibleFlier]

A Fable...

A boss invited a male and female member of his sales team out to lunch. As they left of the building, one of them kicked a bottle lying in the street and, lo and behold, out popped a genie. The genie looked at them and said, “I usually grant three wishes to the one who awakens me but, since there are three of you and I don’t know who woke me up, I’ll give you each one wish.”

The male sales person got very excited and quickly said, “I’d like to be lying on a beach with a pitcher of margaritas and three beautiful
women.”
“Granted,” said the genie, and the young man disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Being an opportunistic sales person, the young woman immediately said, “I’m more a cold-weather person. I’d like to be skiing in San Moritz, surrounded by the most handsome instructors on the mountain.”
“Granted,” said the genie and she, too, disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The genie then turned to the boss and said, “And what can I do for you?”
Without hesitation, the boss said, “I’d like those two back here in an hour.”

Moral: Let the boss speak first.