Her Ladyship and I were seated in coach on a US Airways flight from PHL to Roma. As we nestled into our seats, an in flight came by and enquired: "Are you two our non-revs?"

"Damn," I thought. "They are going to chuck us off."

I thought about lying. Then I realized, of course, that they had paperwork that would reveal my mendacity. So I fessed up.

And the in flight said: "Oh good. When we are in the air, we'd like you to come up and sit in first class."

Life is, as someone observed earlier in this thread, good. The downside of such treatment is that Her Ladyship expects to fly first class every time now. I fail her mostly, of course. </span>