“I salute you!” said the Air Canada pilot

I was staying at a Fairmont, and I got the bad habit to go to the lobby in the morning and get some coffee from there as it was much better than the coffee I could make in the room, not that I am a coffee drinker, go figure!

Once I woke up very early, I could not sleep more so what to do but get some coffee. I think it was around 5:30 AM and as usual I put the shirt, the shorts and the training shoes on (those provided by Fairmont) as I did not want to go down there wearing PJs and the robe.

I was in the lobby, pouring coffee and there an Air Canada pilot waiting for his cab asked whether I was going to the gym so early. I mumbled something as I didn’t want to say I had no intention of going there and I was in the lobby only for the coffee and the Air Canada pilot said:

“I salute you!”

I was so ashamed with myself – people’s lives depend on him, and he salutes me – that I had to go to the gym and use the elliptical machine for around 15 min. I think I even stopped going to the lobby for the coffee since then, anyway it seemed a bad habit to have.

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Update: now it works!

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