Flight SH231 To Tenerife - Part 7 The End

This story is written by David, please send comments and appreciation to voondave@yahoo.co.uk

FLIGHT SH 231 TO TENERIFE.    Part 7 The End
 
 
Flight SH 231 to Tenerife had landed and, as soon as the 'Please Fasten Your Seatbelts' sign had been turned off, the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers were vacating their seats, and retrieving their hand-luggage from the overhead storage cabinets.
 
The feel-good factor kicked in now, at having finally touched down at their holiday destination and, there was a muted, anticipatory hubbub of controlled excitement from the newly-landed holiday-makers, as they patiently filed down the aisle, as and when they could and, Air Hostesses Ann and Katie - stationed at the Rear Entrance door - smiled at them sweetly, and solicitously advised them to be careful in descending the steps - "You don't want to spend your two-week holiday in Tenerife in a plaster-cast, do you? Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
 
Down below, on Tenerife Airport's apron, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes and Air Hostess Carol, were smiling brilliantly at the holiday-makers as they reached the bottom of the steps, and warmly wishing them a happy holiday as they directed them onto the Airport Buses that would take them to the Terminal Building.
 
As Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes and Air Hostess Carol politely ushered the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers onto the Airport Buses, the heels of their Uniform Issue, dark-blue pumps clack-clack-clacked on the apron as they gratefully eased their heels from their shoes, for a moment of sigh-inducing, blessed relief - they had been walking up and down the aisle of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner, in those pumps, for much of the 4-hour-long flight to Tenerife, as they tended to the many various needs and wants of their passengers.
And, they had the return flight to Manchester to work through, yet!
 
"Jeeeeeeesus, Mandy!" warbled Air Hostess Carol, in a pained voice. "My feeeeeet, are ab-so-lute-ly killing me! I can't wait to get back on that plane, and massage them on Wallace's stupid face!"
To which, fervently expressed intention, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes responded equally feelingly, "Oh! I know, Carol!! I'll be putting that young upstart, McArdle, to similar use. Don't you worry yourself!
"Oh, just think! We'll have about twenty minutes with the Techies, all to ourselves, Carol! Then we'll do a quick tidy-up in our half of the plane, before the Manchester-bound passengers start boarding".
"Oh! Twenty minutes, with the H...H...Hair Purification Technicians! Ah! Ha-ha-ha-ha!" warbled Air Hostess Carol, gigglingly - she had not yet got over the amazing novelty of the Auxiliary Air Purification System, that had only been in operation since last Monday, 1 week ago.
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes knew that she had to nip Air Hostess Carol's giggling mirth in the bud, or there would be no stopping her - she was like that. Once she started...
She nudged her tittering colleague in the ribs with her elbow, and jerked her chin meaningfully in the direction of their de-planing and bus-boarding passengers, who were starting to give them odd looks.
"Oops! Sorry, Mandy" trilled Air Hostess Carol, gigglingly.
 
As soon as the last of their passengers had boarded the Airport Buses, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes and Air Hostess Carol were eagerly ascending the steps and, even before they had re-entered the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner through the Rear Entrance door, they heard the by-now-familiar "Nnnnnnnn! Nnnnnnnn!" sound, of outraged protest and acute distress, coming from the aircraft's interior - Air Hostesses Ann and Katie, apparently, had wasted no time, in availing themselves of their favourite perk of their jobs: the services of the Techies, as they were commonly and facetiously known as, by the Air Crew - or, to ascribe them the full and formal status of their Official Title, as designated by the Job Centre - 'Air Purification Technicians'.
 
Air Hostesses Ann and Katie, had already summoned all 4 Air Purification Technicians to the 4 rearmost seats - seats 50 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' and, Air Hostesses Ann and Katie occupied seats 50 'A' and 'B', respectively (on the Port side), where they were enthusiastically availing themselves of the decidedly singular services, of reluctant recruits - Techies Kelvin and Eric, respectively.
"Oh! This, is the best thing ever. Ever!", opined Air Hostess Ann, as she rubbed and worked her dark hosed soles into the upturned, proffered, and fixed-in-place face of the unfortunate Kelvin.
"Oh! You are so right, Ann!", replied Air Hostess Katie, in whole-hearted agreement with her friend and colleague, as she positively mashed her dark hosed, tired and achey soles into the perfectly-positioned, taped-over-mouthed face of the hapless Eric, in an effort to massage and revive some relief and rejuvenation back into them.
 
With melodramatic sighs of relief, Air Hostess Carol and Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes followed the example of their footsore friends and colleagues, and they gratefully plonked themselves down into seats 50 'C' and 'D', respectively (on the Starboard side), where Techies Wallace and McArdle, respectively, awaited them.
 
From their lowly, worm-eye-view vantage points, secured onto their 'contraptions' in the under-seat space of the 'Flying Pencil's narrow fuselage and, staring up, through the 1-foot-square panels that had opened directly above their faces, it was immediately obvious, to Alan and Micky that, even after all of the unspeakable ignominy, after all of the diabolical degradation that they had already been put through by the female passengers during the flight to Tenerife, they were now about to be subjected to even further humiliation, at the hands - or, rather, feet - of the Air Hostesses.
 
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes leaned over and, she watched, with great interest, and with barely controlled mirth, as Air Hostess Carol - with the consummate ease of well-practised routine - used the toe of her right, Uniform Issue, dark-blue pump to prise free her other pump from her left foot, and then employ the dark hosed toes of her left foot, to similarly prise off her right pump, and carelessly allowed both pumps to fall to the floor, beside Alan's dejected and miserable face.
And, Alan now had another reason, to be dejected and miserable.
A good reason!
For, from the angle that one of Air Hostess Carol's well-worn pumps had happened to settle on the floor, Alan could clearly see into the decidedly murky and manky interior - the formerly pale-coloured insole, now, actually black, at the heel and at the ball of the foot and, Alan stared, in distaste and dismay, at the clearly defined and distinct, 5 black, round, slight depressions, that had been caused, over time, by the persistent and prolonged pressure of the dark hosed toepads of Air Hostess Carol's hard-working feet.
But now, Alan suddenly found that he had something more 'pressing' to think about, than the repulsive impressions in the well-worn interior of Air Hostess Carol's Uniform Issue, dark-blue pump ...
 
"Oh! My!! God!!!", warbled Air Hostess Carol, in an uncontrollable paroxism of pure ecstasy, as she vigorously rubbed her dark hosed, hot and sweaty, tired and achey soles into Alan's distressed and despairing, upturned and immovable, taped-over-mouthed, and perfectly-positioned face.
"Oh! This is just sooooo incredible, Mandy! I just can't get over it! I can't get enough of this! It's even better - miles better - than sex!!", trilled Air Hostess Carol, in all seriousness.
Air Hostess Carol was getting carried away, as usual - and riding high, on the surging crest of this unstoppable mega-wave of exhilarating pleasure, of this ultra-sensual, sexually titilating (at least, to Air Hostess Carol!) and, supremely empowering, activity.
 
"Nnnnnnnn! Nnnnnnnn!!", responded the decidedly distraught Alan, intimating that, in his opinion, it came a poor second - a very poor second, indeed - to sex.
 
Then, ineffably satisfied, with the highly pleasing and gratifying results of this marvellous method of sensual stimulation and reflexological revitalization, Air Hostess Carol placed her hot and sweaty, dark hosed toes directly over Alan's dreading, involuntarily flaring nostrils, so that she could partake of another, equally delicious experience...
"Now then, Wallace! You lazy fat tax-dodging sponger!! Here! Have a good sniff, of my feeeet!! Ha-ha-ha-ha!", she warbled gigglingly and, delighting, in the oh so pleasing and gratifying knowledge, that she was inflicting a mental mayhem of misery, with her hot and sweaty, dark hosed, stinky feet, upon a hapless and helpless, vulnerable and defenceless Air Purification Technician.
 
Well! After all, it was Wallace's own fat stupid lazy fault, wasn't it? If he was too bone-idle, to get up off his lazy fat backside, and get a job - like everyone else has to!, thought Air Hostess Carol sourly, in vindicating her heartfelt sentiments.
Oooooh! These infuriating, vexatious thoughts, about the lazy lump under her feet, were enough to make Air Hostess Carol want to give physical expression, to her riling, burning sense of righteous indignation and, to stamp her foot, in temper - and so, she did, several times, upon poor Alan's upturned, perfectly-positioned, and fixed-in-place face.
 
Then, and with a smile on her face - which was a smile of pleasure and gratification - Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes turned her full attention upon Micky, who was staring up at her - her, who Micky already admired and adored, beyond all sense of proportion - through the hole in the floor.
 
Micky was staring, mesmerized, at all of the myriad scratches and scuffs and scrapes and scars, that covered the leather soles of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's well-worn, Uniform Issue, dark-blue pumps, like fabulous and fantastic decorations, as they hovered just mere inches above his face.
And, Micky was enthralled, in a wondrous fascination, as he raptly beheld the beguiling sight of her leather soles, as though reading the arcane, hieroglyphically chronicled testament of their charted history - like an early Egyptologist, trembling in sheer wonderment, while deciphering the mysterious inscriptions upon a newly-discovered Pharaoah's tomb.
Micky didn't know why he was so enraptured and so beguiled, by such a sight.
But, he was - very!
 
Then, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes expertly replicated the deft pump-removing technique - as so adeptly demonstrated by Air Hostess Carol - and she, like-wise, placed her dark-hosed, hot and sweaty, tired and achey, stinky feet, directly onto Micky's awe-struck, fixed-in-place face.
Then, she proceeded to luxuriously massage her soles into Micky's wonder-struck and disbelieving face, with blissful, ecstatic sighs of relief - and, of pleasure and gratification.
 
Then, after a few moments, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes spoke, as she looked down on Micky, with her 'knowing' look.
And, Micky, along with Air Hostesses Carol, Ann, and Katie, and Micky's 3 former class-mates - but, now, his fellow Air Purification Technicians - Alan, Kelvin and Eric, raptly hung onto her every single word - they couldn't help it!
For, they were all - every single one of them - fascinated and amazed, by what she said.
 
"Now then, McArdle.
"This is your moment of truth.
"I know your little secret, McArdle - oh yes, I know!
"I've had my suspicions about you, since early this morning. But, now, I am sure - one-hundred percent certain - about you, McArdle.
"You don't complain, and you are not disgusted and distressed by the humiliating conditions of your placement as an Air Purification Technician, as your friends are, and as all of the other Techies that we've had so far, have been - one of them, was actually reduced to crying for his mother.
"But, you, McArdle, you thrive on it. Don't you? You, won't cry for your mother, will you?
"Why? Because you like feet. Don't you, McArdle? You actually like feet, don't you?
"I've watched you, McArdle - oh, yes, I've watched you closely.
"You like the sight, of feet. You like the feel, of feet. And, you like the smell, of feet, don't you? Don't you, McArdle?
"Oh, I know, McArdle. I know.
"I've watched you, McArdle. During the flight. When you've been summoned, time, after time, after time, by the female passengers sitting in the Starboard window-seats.
"Feet, are your drug. Aren't they, McArdle? And, you've been as high as a kite, on them, haven't you, McArdle - higher than this plane!
"I've seen the look on your face. And, I've seen the look in your eyes, McArdle. The eyes don't lie - they are, the windows of the soul.
"Yes, I've seen inside your soul, McArdle. Oh yes, I've seen, and I know what's there.
"You like feet. You want feet. You need feet. Don't you, McArdle?
"In fact, you actually love feet, McArdle. Don't you? Oh, I know. Admit it, McArdle. You love feet. Don't you?
"Admit it, to me, McArdle. I want to hear your admission. Admit it, to me..."
 
Micky stared up, unblinking, at the penetrating and intuitive eyes, at the seemingly all-knowing - the seemingly oracular appariton - of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes.
Micky listened, raptly, to her mesmeric, systematic, High-Priestess-like, revelatory - right-on-the-money - monologue.
Listened to her, insightfully and faultlessly and effortlessly exposing his truth - for all to see.
Just as surely and just as graphically, as she would have systematically and effortlessly exposed his nakedness, by removing the flimsy shields of his clothing - garment, by garment, by garment, until his truth was uncovered. And laid bare - for all to see.
And, Micky listened, raptly, with undivided attention... listened, to Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - saying his name, repeating his name, chanting his name, over, and over, and over...like a repetitive, insistently intoned, hypnotic mantra: McArdle...McArdle...McArdle...McArdle...
And, Micky, no longer hating it...
 
Micky was trembling, shaking, shuddering, in the cataclysmic throes of uncontrollable, devastating, body-wracking emotions.
Tears, copious tears, flooded from Micky's now blurry eyes, at actually hearing these essential home-truths, straight from the lips of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - and, at his realization and understanding, of her full and certain, and irrefutable knowledge of them - his home-truths.
Micky felt naked and exposed, before her, as if she had undressed him - and, in a way, she had.
Micky felt defenceless and vulnerable, before her - and, in a way, he was.
 
Then, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes leaned down, and she pulled the strip of adhesive tape from Micky's mouth.
"Now, McArdle. Answer me - truthfully, McArdle.
"Am I right? Have I been speaking the truth? Do you love feet?
"I know, McArdle, don't I? I know, all about your little secret. All about your-------"
"Yes! Yes!! I'ts true - all true!!!", cried Micky, his venting emotions pouring out, like an errupting volcano of pure, cataclysmic and cathartic relief.
 
Micky's "little secret" was out.
Micky had been exposed - for all to see.
Exposed, for what he was - by Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, of SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS.
It was out, now. 
It had to come out!
Out in the open - for all to see.
It was all out, now - 'Better Out Than In', as Mum was wont to say, when occasion called for it.
And, Micky wondered if Mum would have another such pearl-of-wisdom phrase to hand, applicable to this, his latest predicament.
 
Micky struggled to come to terms, with this sudden upheaval of such acute feeling - with this unprecedented maelstrom of pure, overwhelming emotion.
But, there would be time, later, for carefully considered rumination, and for detailed analysis and introspection.
For, now, Micky was living in the moment - and only, the moment: the clear, pellucid, and energized moment - for, flushed and animated, released from his mental shackles, freed from the chains of his inhibitions, Micky grabbed the moment by the horns, and seized the moment - his moment! - seized it!
For, now, all Micky could think about, was the amazing and wonderful - fulfilling - sensation, of the satisfying weight of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's tired and achey, hot and sweaty, dark hosed, stinky feet, resting upon his tear-streaked, upturned, perfectly-positioned, and fixed-in-place face...as if that was where they belonged - exactly - where they belonged.
 
And, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, had freed Micky's lips: freed them, to adore, and to worship - to pay his devotions - and, that is what Micky did.
The sheer, unadulterated joy, the exquisite, unprecedented sensation, of pressing his adoring, worshipping - devotional - lips, into the cherished soles of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's warm, intoxicating, dark hosed feet, brought tears, copious tears of pure rapture, from Micky's eyes.
Micky could have died, he thought, from over-exposure to joy and ecstasy.
And, if he had, he would have died happy - very happy!
Micky wanted this glorious - transcendent - moment, to go on, and on...for ever!
 
Unfortunately, for Micky, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes had other, work-related considerations and responsibilities to think about and, with a melodramatic sigh of reluctance, she put her Uniform Issue, dark-blue pumps back on again.
"Come on, girls", she said. "We'll have to let the Techies go to the loo now, and give them something to eat, while we have a tidy-up in our half of the plane before the Manchester-bound passengers get here".
 
When the plane had been tidied up, and after the Air Purification Technicians had been fed, watered, and toileted, and then re-installed into their 'contraptions' by the Air Hostesses, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes and Air Hostess Carol returned to the apron, to welcome the Manchester-bound passengers who were getting off the Airport Buses - Airport Buses, that had large signs in their windows, that read - 'FLIGHT SH 232 TO MANCHESTER'.
 
For the 4 Air Purification Technicians, the return flight to Manchester was all-but indistinguishable, from the out-bound flight to Tenerife.
The 'contraptions' that bore them, relentlessly trundled up and down the dim and dismal, cramped and confined, claustrophobic - coffin-like, almost - under-seat space of the 'Flying Pencil's narrow fuselage.
The panels, directly above their faces, opened...and closed...and opened...and closed...and opened: opened, when the female passengers summoned them - and closed, when their 10 minutes were up...
It was just that, most of the female SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers - who, by the simple means of pushing the button located under the right arm-rest of their seat, summoned the decidedly singular, always-in-demand services of the Air Purification Technicians - had tanned feet.
 
After the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner had landed at Manchester Airport, and all of the returned holiday-makers had disembarked, and were on their way to the Terminal Building, the 4 Air Hostesses finally released the 4 Air Purification Technicians from the 'contraptions' - 'contraptions' - that they had been secured onto, for more than 9 hours.
 
Then, the 4 Air Hostesses - along with Captain (Buck) Rogers; his First Officer; his Flight Engineer; the 4 male stewards, who had worked the Forward Galley, today; and, last (and least!), the 4 Air Purification Technicians - all boarded the SUNSINE HOLIDAYS Air Crew Bus that would now transport them to their Crew Room, where they would conduct their usual post-flight de-brief, and count up their day's takings, before finally signing off duty.
 
The Cabin Crew - the Flight Deck crew had their own office - upon their arrival at the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Room, all made for the drinks machine to get coffee, before settling down to their routine, post-flight de-brief and, to count up the money they had taken aboard the aircraft, from the duty-free sales, drinks sales, etc.
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, in no-nonesense, peremptory tones, told the 4 Air Purification Technicians to get a drink of water from the tap.
 
In the not overly utilitarian SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Room, there were 4, 4-seater settees, and a scattering of miscellaneous, comfortable single seats dotted about the place.
The 4 male stewards - who had worked the Forward Galley, today, and tidied up their own half of the plane during the turn-around at Tenerife Airport - as though it was the well-established norm, sat themselves down at the counting-up table, where they proceeded to check that the money they had taken today, tallied with the combined totals of all 8 of the Cabin Crew's sales sheets.
They did this with care, in hopes of getting it right first time; and thereby avoiding a tedious and irksome, and time-consuming - but necessary - re-count.
 
As soon as the 4 Air Hostesses had seated themselves, upon 1 of the 4-seater settees - cups of coffee in hand - Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, who sat at one end of the settee, with Air Hostess Carol sitting beside her, spoke to the 4 Air Purification Technicians, authoritatively, and matter-of-factly.
"Right then, you lot!
"Feeeet!!
"Yes, you heard me correctly.
"You will now, massage our feet, for us.
"When you return here after a Flight Duty, you will massage the feet of the Air Hostesses who you have served under, that day.
"And, today, that means us!", Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes informed the 4 Air Purification Technicians, indicating herself and her 3 colleagues, with an all-encompassing sweep of her arm - as if they didn't know, who they had 'served under' that day!
"And, just in case any of you are getting the idea into your stupid, thick heads, of refusing...well, I advise you to think again. I would be obliged to make due note of it, in your Satisfaction Of Conduct report. And, I assure you, it would not go down well for you, at the Job Centre.
"Now! You, McArdle! You will now assume your foot-massaging position. You will sit on the floor, in front of me, take off my shoes, and massage my feet, for me.
"Now! I'm waiting!! Do it, McArdle!!!" ordered Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, authoritatively.
 
Micky could not believe, just could not believe, that this was actually happening - thought that this could only happen, in the unconscious realms of some fantastical and fabulous dream, in which he would feverishly thrash his bedsheets into a mangled mess, while moaning and babbling the incoherent, sleep-talking sentiments of his joy and desire - today, just kept on getting better and better!
And better!!
Micky, in a ferment of thrilling, spine-tingling emotion, prepared to do exactly as he had been formally instructed, by Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - who he had already grown to admire and adore, beyond all sense of proportion.
Micky obediently, and reverently and gently, took hold of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's right foot and, the amazing, stunning feeling - the actual reality - of subserviently holding her Uniform Issue, dark-blue pump shod foot, in his very own two hands, thrilled him. Moved him!
Rocked him!!
Filled him, with awe!!!
Micky - possessively, almost -  held onto Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's right, pump shod foot, for long, lingering seconds, savouring everything about it - everything!
Everything!!
Time, seemed to slow down, then stand still, as Micky savoured - like some Master Taster, of the finer things in life - this incredible, transcendent - seminal - moment, of sublime sensation.
Micky savoured: holding, and taking the satisfying weight of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's right, Uniform Issue, dark-blue pump shod foot, in his unworthy hands; savoured, feeling the well-worn, supple texture of the dark-blue shoe-leather at his sensitive fingertips; savoured, feeling the radiating - pulsing, almost - warmth, coming through from inside of her dark-blue pump, of her tired and achey, hot and sweaty, dark hosed feet.
But, most of all, Micky savoured his acute, spine-tingling sense, of his first-time, uncontrollable and uncontainable excitement, and his exhilarating, almost heart-stopping, anticipation - trepidation, almost - for what was still to come.
To Micky, the moment - this seminal moment, in a day, already jam-packed full of seminal moments - was taking on the solemn - religious, almost - gravitas, of a sacred ritual.
Yes! That was it!!
That was it, exactly - sacred.
Sacred.
 
It was something, a special sort of something, Micky believed, that was not to be rushed through, with unseemly and irreverent - sinful, almost - haste: but, a 'procedure'; a precious, preliminary procedure, to be piously presided over; a procedure, to be carried out, with the serious solemnity suitable to the occasion; a procedure, to be assiduously administered, with all due protocol, pomp, and ceremony, fully and faithfully and fittingly observed; and, a procedure, to be conducted with consummate care, with discriminatory diligence - with Cardinal consideration.
 
There was a warbling, trilling titter of uncontainable hilarity, from Air Hostess Carol.
"Look at McArdle's face, everyone! Oh, just look, at his face!! Ha-ha-ha-ha! It's an absolute picture!
"What are you waiting for, McArdle? Snap out of it! We are going to be here all night, at this rate!
"Get on with it, McArdle!
"After all, we all know you want to, don't we?"
 
Air Hostess Carol, after unceremoniously kicking her Uniform Issue, dark-blue pumps free, and carelessly letting them land where they might, turned her bird-like attention to Alan.
"Wallace!", she squawked, as if at some unsuspecting and unfortunate and singularly appetizing prey, that she had swooped down upon and clutched from the comfort of it's idyll, and carried to the high eyrie of her impregnable nest, and, that would rather be anywhere else at all, than helplessly pinned beneath her cruel talons, and waiting to be devoured, "Follow McArdle's example, and sit on the floor, in front of me, Wallace", she trilled, bossily.
Turning to Kelvin and Eric, she warbled on imperiously, "Costello! Pierce! What are you two waiting for? You've been told what to do, haven't you? Now, do it!"
By now, Kelvin and Eric had learned enough, of the harsh and immutable realities of their new situation - of their 'placement' - to know, that it was most definitely in their best interests, to obey the orders of the Air Hostesses promptly and compliantly.
And, to know, that should they fail to do so, harsh repercussions would be certain to ensue, just as soon as word of their recalcitrance - via their 'Satisfaction Of Conduct' reports - reached the critically scrutinizing eyes, of their Controllers at the Job Centre.
And so, Kelvin and Eric, exactly as they had been told to do by Air Hostess Carol, resigned themselves to their sorry lot and, they sat down on the floor of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Room, at the dark hosed feet of Air Hostesses Ann and Katie.
 
As soon as all 4 of the footsore Air Hostesses were having their hot and sweaty, tired and aching, dark hosed, stinky feet massaged by the 4 Air Purification Technicians - who they now treated as if they were their very own, personal foot-servants, attending them in their boudoir - Air Hostess Carol warbled contentedly, "Now, we're cooking with gas!"
 
From time to time, the 4 male stewards - who had worked the Forward Galley, that day - and who were still sitting at the counting-up table, and balancing up the day's takings, glanced over, at the amusing antics of their decidedly imperious female counterparts.
When they did so, the 4 male stewards smiled and smirked, and sniggered and snickered, and laughed and joked, among themselves, at seeing just what those poor sods - the Air Purification Technicians: Ha! 'Air Purification Technicians'! Ha! What an amazing, brilliant joke!! - had actually been reduced to: after having been forced to sniff up the stinky foot fumes of 2 contingents of female passengers, on the more than 4-hour-long flights, to Tenerife and back, now, they were being callously and maliciously dominated and controlled, by the 'Hosties'.
Ha! If that didn't get the workshy so-and-so's looking for a job - nothing would!!
The Air Purification Technicians (as they would soon come to know), might be either sadistically subjugated...or merely taken full advantage of, depending entirely, upon the attitudes and inclinations, and upon the wishes and whims - upon the mood - of the Air Hostesses.
 
Not, that Micky was complaining - far from it!
 
For, to say that, humbly sitting on the floor of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Room, and actually holding, and lovingly massaging the hot and sweaty, tired and aching, dark hosed, stinky feet of Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - who he had already grown to admire and adore, beyond all sense of proportion - was like having all of his birthdays and all of his Christmases come together all at once, was to make a vast understatement.
To Micky, it meant much more - so much more - to him, than that.
To Micky, even to say that it was a vast understatement, was a vast understatement, in itself .
And, an almost sacreligious trivialization, of something close to intranscendent - something holy - almost.
Micky believed, that this was as close to Heaven as he could get, while still tethered to his mortal cord.
In fact, this was better than Heaven, Micky was sure.
Miles better - had to be!
To humbly hold Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes's beautiful, shapely, dark hosed feet, in his trembling, unworthy hands - oh, and he knew he was unworthy: he knew it, for an absolute fact - to hold them, to feel them, to look at them, to admire them, to adore them, to massage them, to lovingly caress them, with his super-sensitive fingertips, and, not to care - not in the slightest - if the male stewards smiled and smirked, and snickered and sniggered, and laughed and joked among themselves, as he did so, to--------
 
"Oh! My!! God!!!"
"That's not, who I think it is, is it?
"That just can't be, who I think it is!
"Oh! My!! God!!! It is! It is! It's only the A.S.B.O. Kid, himself!!
"Micky McArdle!!!
"Oh! This is just too precious. Too precious for words. Too good to be true!
"Oh! This has made my day! My week! My month! My forever!!
"Micky McArdle - one of the footsniffers!!
"Oh! My!! God!!! Ha-ha-ha-ha! I can't believe it!
"Oh, I can't wait to tell his sister! I went to school with Elaine McArdle.
"Oh! When I tell her about this, Elaine is going to die, of pure hapiness!", confidently predicted Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, who had just entered the Crew Room to report for her Flight Duty.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh! This is just the best! The best ever!! I can't wait - Elaine's going to die! She's going to..."
 
Micky knew Chief Stewardess Julie Jones - knew her, that is, when she was just plain-old (so to speak: with her pale-complexioned, striking good looks, and her great, curvey figure, and her shapely, amazing legs, and her red-haired, flame-tempered, fiery character, she was anything but plain!) Julie Jones - knew her well. Very well!
Very well, indeed!!
Micky knew her, as a prize bitch - of the first-water.
For some reason: probably, Micky thought, as a direct consequence of her long-standing friendship with his sister, Elaine - who would have maliciously blackened his character, vindictively dragged his name through the mud, and sadistically put the poison in, against him - both in, and outside of school, Julie Jones had, for some reason, always had it in, for him.
Always.
Big-Time.
Mega-Time!
 
In fact... now that he thought about it... now that he really, really thought... about it...
Micky remembered having been on the receiving end, of many a snide, malicious comment, and of many a vindictive, cruel clip around the ear, and of many a painful, punishing nipple-pinch, and of many a sly, stinging slap, from Julie Jones, when she frequently came to his home to visit - to 'chill', and to spend 'quality time' - with Elaine... in fact... she came most evenings... and nearly every weekend...in fact... she always seemed to be there... always... in fact...!!! 
As if a key, elusive piece of jigsaw puzzle had suddenly dropped into place, in a moment of stark, pellucid clarity, in a sudden, flaring flash of insight, Micky now suspected: very strongly, suspected, that the 'real' reason that Julie Jones - that prize bitch - of the first-water, came to his home, was actually, to pick on him!
To make her snide comments!
To clip his ear!
To pinch his nipple!
To slap his face!
To bully him!!
He wouldn't be surprised. 
Not a bit surprised!
 
While Micky grudgingly conceded that, goadingly calling Julie Jones, a 'Carot Top', might not be the best way of endearing himself to her...that, rather unflatteringly calling her an 'Ugly Fat Bitch', was not likely to ever get him on her right side...that, disrespectfully calling her a 'Fat Arsed Slapper', was hardly conducive to getting himself into her good books...and that, especially, indulging in his favourite term of abuse - which he ruddy well knew, to be her very particular bete noire - of provocatively calling her a 'Ginger Minge', was hardly likely to influence her to see him through rose-tinted glasses...still, Micky couldn't help but feel, that her seemingly natural, acute aversion, towards him, her blatantly beligerent attitude, her active animosity - open hostility - towards him, was more than a little over the top.
As if...she - purely and simply - had it in, for him.
Big-Time.
Mega- Time.
 
Julie Jones had told Micky, on numerous occasions, that he should show more respect, to Elaine - and, to her.
She had also told Micky, and, in no uncertain terms, that she would "teach" him some respect - if he was her brother.
And, she had further informed Micky, that she would "absolutely love", the opportunity to "teach" him some respect.
And, now...
 
Micky thought he was in for it now, all right!
Ruddy hell!
Of all people!!
That Carrot-Topped, Ugly, Fat-Arsed, Ginger-Minged, Prize Bitch - of the first-water!!!
 
Micky had little reason to think, that Julie Jones's decidedly rough and abrasive - aggressive - character, had softened any, with her rise to a position of authority, as a Chief Stewardess with SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS.
In fact, given her ecstatic, gleeful reaction, at her sudden realization of Micky's humiliating predicament, that he had actually been assigned a placement at her own company, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS, as an Air Purification Technician ("Micky McArdle - one of the footsniffers!!")  - and, at her sudden, heart-warming realization that, at absolutely no expenditure of effort on her own part, Micky had as good as fallen right into her lap, like a fly in a Venus flytrap, and, that now, she would be able to suck him dry, at her leisure - Micky had plenty of reason, to suppose the contrary to be the case, as it was immediately and painfully apparent to Micky, that she had actually gotten worse - a whole lot worse.
A whole lot bitchier.
 
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, addressed the 4 Air Purification Technicians under her charge.
"McArdle. Wallace. Costello. Pierce!
"Your final post-flight duty, which you must always perform before you go Off Duty, is to polish our shoes, for us, so that they are nice and clean and shiny for when we wear them again.
"When you have cleaned and polished our shoes - and, you had better do a very good job of it, too, or you'll know about it! - just leave them on the floor of our lockers. Our lockers have got our names on them, and they will be locked when you close the doors - so you don't have to worry about leaving them unlocked.
"Right then! Carol, Ann, Katie, let's go! Our work here, is done. Ha-ha!"
 
To the 4 Air Purification Technicians, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes added warningly, " OK, you lot. I've given you your orders - you know what to do.
"Now, we'll see you all in the morning - same time, same place - and, we want to see you all bright and bushy-tailed, and raring to go, too!
"You'll be flying to Izmir, in Turkey, tomorrow - not, that it makes much difference to you lot, where you go. Ha-ha!
"And, don't be late, in reporting for duty! Or I'll be obliged to make due note of it, in your Satisfaction Of Conduct report. And, I assure you, that won't go down well for you, at the Job Cent----"
 
"I... don't! ... ruddy well!! ... believe this!!!", exclaimed Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, in vexed tones of annoyance and great umbrage.
At hearing her colleague's angry outburst, Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - who thought her colleague was probably in a temper over something and nothing: it usually didn't take much, for her fiery friend's blue touch-paper to start smouldering - turned to her and enquired, unconcernedly enough, "What's up, Jules? Problem?"
Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, replied furiously, "One of the Techies - Trent - hasn't turned up for duty. Oh! He's going to be sorry, when I get my hands on him!
"This is the second time, that Trent has let me down - oh, he's in big trouble now!
"Thanks to ruddy Trent, it looks like I'm going to have to operate the Corfu flight, with only three footsniffers, Mandy", lamented Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
"I wonder what Trent's problem can be, Jules?", mused Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, mockingly. "I mean", she continued, "it can't be sniffing women's stinky feet, for over 9 hours, on board the 'Flying Pencil', can it? Ha-ha-ha!
"Seriously though, Jules", Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, went on, "this is an unnecessary problem, and one that should never be allowed to happen - all we have to do, in future, is to have a team of Techies here in the Crew Room, on Stand By. I'll put it to Crewing - they'll sort it out, for us. No problem at all".
 
When the going gets tough - the tough get going...
 
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - while ostensibly airing her urgent appeal, to all 4 Air Purification Technicians under her charge - directed her gaze (her 'knowing' look), at Micky McArdle.
"Right then, you lot! This is an emergency! I want a volunteer! And, I know you won't let me down!
"I want one of you, to volunteer to serve under Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, and to operate on the Corfu flight.
"I can't order you to do it - you've all fulfilled your obligated requirements for today. You must volunteer - of your own free will".
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, staring fixedly at Micky, went on, "Whichever one of you, volunteers to serve under Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, and to operate on the Corfu flight - I must warn you: You will be late getting back - very late - the return flight from Corfu is scheduled to arrive back in Manchester at one a.m.
"Then, of course, you will still have to perform your foot-massaging and shoe-cleaning duties afterwards, here, in the Crew Room, until about two a.m.
"So, it is going to mean a very long and tiring day, for one of you", warned Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, her eyes still riveted upon Micky's face, with her 'knowing' look.
"And", she continued, "you will, of course, still be required to report for duty as scheduled, tomorrow morning at six o'clock, to operate on our flight to Izmir, in Turkey.
"Whichever one of you volunteers, I'll make due note of it, on your Satisfaction Of Conduct report.
"It will go down well, for you, at the Job Centre.
"And, more importantly, it will go down well, for you, with me.
"I'll---"
Just as Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, knew he would, Micky held up a responsive hand.
"Miss Amanda...I'd like to volunteer".
"Ruddy hell, Mandy! You've got the A.S.B.O. Kid well trained, haven't you? Ruddy hell!!", exclaimed Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, in apparent shock and disbelief - and, great relief, too - that she would, after all, be operating the flight to Corfu, with a full complement of Air Purification Technicians.
 
Just 10 minutes later, Micky was once again sitting aboard the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Bus, as it jounced along the apron of Manchester Airport, with a decidedly smug-looking, Chief Stewardess Julie Jones: (that prize bitch - of the first-water); the other 7 members of the Cabin Crew; the Flight-Deck Crew; and, last - and least! - his 3 fellow Techies: or, to ascribe them the full and formal status of their Official Title, as designated by the Job Centre - 'Air Purification Technicians'.
 
Once aboard the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner, with unveiled, malicious glee, Chief Stewardess Julie Jones took sadistic delight in personally re-installing Micky into the same 'contraption' - the 'contraption', that Micky had only just been released from after arriving back from Tenerife, after more than 9 hours in the air and, the same  'contraption', that endlessly travelled the one-lane-highway, in the cramped, confined, claustrophobic - coffin-like, almost - under-seat space of the 'Flying Pencil's narrow fuselage - where, always in demand, he would serve the never-ending summons, of the button-pushing female passengers who occupied the Starboard window-seats and, who were wishing to avail themselves, of the decidedly singular, and pleasing and gratifying services, of an Air Purification Technician.
And, of course - during the turn-around time, at the destination Airport - he would serve the dark hosed, footsore, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Air Hostesses, themselves.
 
Chief Stewardess Julie Jones: that prize bitch - of the first-water, kept up a taunting, derisive, and cruel monologue, as she gleefully re-installed Micky onto the 'contraption'.
"What a sucker! Ha-ha!", opined Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, as she secured Micky's arms along his sides, to the 'contraption'.
"What a loser! Ha-ha!", asserted Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, as she tore off a strip of strong adhesive tape from the roll, and firmly pressed it to Micky's lips with her figertips.
"Oh! I can't wait to tell Elaine, the next time I see her, that her pesky, obnoxious, disrespecting younger brother, is actually a footsniffer for SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS!", Chief Stewardess Julie Jones informed Micky, maliciously.
"And, I can't wait to tell Elaine, that I have actually had her pesky, obnoxious, disrespecting younger brother, helpless, under my feet!
"Yes! That I have actually had you, sniffing my stinky feet!
"Yes! Oh yes! That I have made you - actually forced you - to sniff my nasty, stinky feet, and that there wasn't a thing, that you could do about it! Not a thing!!
"Because, my little foot pet, that is exactly what is going to happen, during the turn-around at Corfu Airport", gloated Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
"What do you think Elaine will say, and your Petra, and your Mum, and your Dad, will say, when they find out? Eh? Eh? When they find out, that you've actually been assigned a placement at SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS, as a ruddy footsniffer - oh! I'm sorry, I meant an 'Air Purification Technician' - pardon me!! Ha-ha-ha-ha!", taunted Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
"Oh! I knew that Britain was going to become a better place, when Caroline Flint and the A.F.P. came to power! I knew I was right, to vote for the Authoritarian Female Party!!
"After all, A.S.B.O. Kid, you are the living proof of it - I'm actually going to have your stupid, ugly face, under my nasty, stinky feet!
"I can still hardly believe it, but, I am actually going to make you smell my nasty, smelly, stinky feet, and there's not a single thing - not a single, solitary thing - that you can do about it! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
"Oh! I'm going to have some fun with you, Micky McArdle! This is Payback Time! And boy, am I going to make you pay!
"Oh, yes! I'll, teach you the meaning of 'respect'!!", vowed Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
"Volunteer? Ha! More like loser! More like sucker! - more like, 'footsniffer'!!", mocked Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
"I'll see you later, footsniffer. You lazy, bone-idle, good-for-nothing, waste-of-time and waste-of-space, footsniffer! And, that's a promise!", were the malicious and vindictive parting words, of Chief Stewardess Julie Jones.
 
Then, Chief Stewardess Julie Jones smirked, gleefully and cruelly, at Micky, as she contemptuously applied her right, Uniform Issue, dark-blue pump shod foot, to the 'contraption' that bore him, and thereby callously consigning yet another unfortunate and miserable Techie (or, so she thought, at the time!), to another long, uncomfortable, and soul-destroyingly humiliating shift, in the cramped, confined, claustrophobic - coffin-like, almost - under-seat space of the 'Flying Pencil's narrow fuselage, to endlessly trundle up and down the one-lane-highway and, endlessly serving - as an Air Purification Technician - the variously demanding, expectant, pleased, approving, novelty-loving, delighted, amused, highly amused, amazed, astonished, disbelieving, incredulous, excited, thrilled, titilated, button-pushing female passengers, who were occupying the Starboard window-seats aboard the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner and, who enjoyed a tipple or 2 (or 3!) and, who smiled - smiled, with pleasure and gratification - as they happily and contentedly flew to their holiday destination: which, in this case, would be the sun-drenched Greek Island, of Corfu.
 
The Captain of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS jet-liner boosted the engines to full power - the 'Flying Pencil' was now ready for take-off.
Destination: Corfu.
Not that (as Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, had pointed out), the destination made much difference, to an Air Purification Technician.
Except, of course, that some flights were of a longer duration than others. Much longer, in some cases!
Indeed, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS operated quite a number of long-haul flights to far-flung destinations - in the US, the Far East, Australia - to name but a few.
Until now, though, there had been a certain 'logistical' difficulty, preventing the use of Air Purification Technicians on these long-haul destinations. Until now...
Until now...
For, a simple solution had been found, by the great thinkers at SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS, to deal with this sanitation-related problem; which would entail the Air Purification Technicians wearing something, that rather resembled an over-sized, baby's disposable nappy.
This was a simple - but effective - solution, that would enable the Air Purification Technicians to remain in-situ, on the 'contraptions' that bore them, for much longer periods of time and, sniffing up the stinky foot fumes of the female holiday-makers - so that the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers wouldn't have to.
 
Soon, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS would be introducing their Auxiliary Air Purification System - the Air Purification Technicians - to their larger, wide-bodied, 6, 8, and 10 'contraptioned' jet-liners, including their 'Jumbo Jets', that flew to their long-haul, far-flung, and exotic destinations around the world.
As the aircraft would be returning to Manchester on the following day (of course, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS operated from a number of other British airports, including Glasgow, Birmingham, Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, Bristol, and Cardiff), this meant an overnight stop-over at the resort destination for the Air Crew - and, for the Air Purification Technicians...
For the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Air Crew, these long-haul, one-night stop-over destinations in often exotic, but always exciting, resorts, were the plum, highly-prized, and much sought after Flight Duty assignments.
But, for the Air Purification Technicians...
For the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Air Crew, these one-night stop-overs allowed them to thoroughly enjoy themselves: to let their hair down; to cast off their inhibitions; to paint the town red; to dance the night away; to trip the light fantastic; to Party - and, of course, gave them free reign, to go back to their hotel bedrooms, to  indulge in their uninhibited revelry, and to practise their alcohol-fuelled, brazen promiscuity and unrestrained debauchery, with wonton, inebriated abandon.
But, for the Air Purification Technicians...
For the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Air Crew, these one-night stop-overs were very enjoyable interludes - like 'mini-holidays' - and, highly lucrative: with all-found, best-of-everything hotel accommodation and food; with very generous, away-from-home allowances; and, with numerous other associated benefits and payments, that fattened their pay packets, and reminded them, that they were indeed, on 'a good screw' - in more ways than one!.
But, for the Air Purification Technicians...
For the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Air Crew, to be informed by someone in 'Crewing', that they were rostered to fly long-haul, with a one-night stop-over in some far-flung, exciting, exotic resort, was to instantly get them buzzing, and frenziedly texting and phoning the colleagues that they would be flying (and flirting!) with, and, already excitedly looking forward to the coming trip, with eager anticipation, and with barely contained gusto and glee.
But, for the Air Purification Technicians...
 
About 20 minutes later, the 'contraption' bearing Micky started moving, with a skeleton-jarring jolt, and it began to transport him along his rackety, dim and dismal, one-lane-highway, to a point: a point, determined by the female passenger who had summoned him - an Air Purification Technician - by the simple means of pushing the button, that was located under the right arm-rest of her Starboard window-seat.
 
The panel directly above Micky's face opened.
 
After the feeble, dismal glow of the widely-spaced, low-wattage bulbs in the under-seat space of the 'Flying Pencil's narrow fuselage, the sudden increase of brightness coming from the aircraft cabin caused Micky initial discomfort and, he had to squint, for a few moments, against the harsh and offensive glare, while he waited for his eyes to adjust.
 
When Micky opened his eyes, he saw a girl of about his own age, looking down on him.
The girl was smiling. It was a pretty, fetching, attractive smile - and, it was a smile, of pleasure and gratification.
Micky thought the girl was pretty - very pretty!
Very pretty, indeed!!
She had brown eyes, and she had long, blonde hair, that was tied with pink ribbon, and that hung down over the front of her shoulders in glossy, luxuriant twin ponytails.
Micky was enchanted, by this beautiful blonde vision.
On her feet, Micky saw that the beautiful blonde girl wore thin, white cotton ankle-socks, and black, heavy-looking, backless shoes - like Dutch clogs.
As Micky watched, the girl casually let her heavy-looking clogs fall from her dainty feet, and they landed by Micky's enraptured, conveniently positioned, taped-over-mouthed, and fixed-in-place face, with a substantial-sounding thud.
Now, the beautiful blonde girl hovered her white cotton, ankle-socked soles mere inches above Micky's bug-eyed face and, he had just a few precious seconds, in which to register the exciting, thrilling sight of the balls of her feet, her heels, and the under-toe areas of her socks, which were moist-looking and, stained grey, with her foot sweat.
Then the girl, simply and nonchalantly, lowered her white cotton, ankle-socked, dainty feet onto Micky's upturned and perfectly-positioned face: her toes, carefully and strategically stationed directly over his nostrils, so as to ensure, that she was achieving maximum suction and, so as to ensure, that his nostrils would inhale, like 2 heavy-duty extractor fans and, so as to ensure, that the twin air-intakes of his nostrils efficiently vacuumed up her stinky foot fumes, and permanently absorbed them into his lungs, like 2 super-absorbent sponges - so that the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers wouldn't have to.
 
Well! After all, that's what the bone-idle, waste-of-time, waste-of-space, good-for-nothing, tax-dodging sponger was here for!
Wasn't it?
It was a way of making the lazy so-and-so earn his Unemployment Benefit, until he got up off his worthless, useless backside - the useless lazy fat lump! - and got a job.
The Chief Stewardess - Julie, her name is - told her so!
The Chief Stewardess - Julie - knows this particular Air Purification Technician extremely well, knows him of old, she said. And so, she knows what she's talking about, she had assured her.
So - Chief Stewardess Julie, had told her - there's no need to feel sorry, for 'him'!
Oh, no!!
Don't feel sorry for 'him' - 'he' deserves everything he gets! Everything! That's why he's here! That's the whole reason, why he's been assigned a placement as an Air Purification Technician!, Chief Stewardess Julie, had earnestly explained to her.
And, after all, when you thought about it... when you really, really, thought, about it... there did seem to be a... a... a sort of... 'rightness', about it, too!
Yes! He jolly well did, deserve everything he got!
Everything!!
 
Now, Micky closed his eyes again - but, this time, it had nothing to do with the harsh lighting coming from the aircraft cabin.
 
And, it wasn't long, before Micky was starting to get a little hot and bothered - in fact, more than a little, hot and bothered!
Micky was getting very hot, and very bothered, indeed!
In fact... Micky was starting to get excited - very excited - 'down there'.
Micky wanted to do 'something' about it - was desperate, to do 'something' about it.
He wanted to touch himself.
He wanted to stroke himself.
He wanted to caress himself.
He wanted to play with himself.
Micky wanted, to urgently and frantically and frenetically and frenziedly pull and tug, himself!
But, he couldn't!!
Because his arms were secured along his sides, to the 'contraption'!!!
 
The panel directly above Micky's face closed.
 
The enchanting, brown-eyed, blonde, pink-beribboned-twin-ponytailed girl, of about Micky's own age, with her black, heavy-looking, backless shoes - like Dutch clogs - and her dainty, stinky, sweat-stained, white cotton ankle-socked feet, disappeared from Micky's sight.
Her 10 minutes were up...
 
For the remainder of the flight to Corfu - and the return flight to Manchester! - time, and time again, Micky was variously imperiously, arrogantly, nonchalantly, or maliciously summoned, by the female passengers who occupied the Starboard window-seats and, who smiled down at him, with pleasure and gratification, as he sniffed up their stinky foot fumes - so that the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS passengers didn't have to.
 
Micky, was "high as a kite!" on his female-foot-fix and, he positively thrilled, to those visual, tactile, and olfactory delights - but, at the terrible price, of almost unbearable, sanity-threatening torment and frustration.
 
Here, is where we shall take our leave of young Micky McArdle.
For, it is clear to us, the road he has chosen to travel - the one-lane-highway - in the dismal, feeby-lit, cramped and confined, claustrophobic - coffin-like, almost - under-seat space, in the narrow fuselage of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS 'Flying Pencil'.
 
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes - who Micky already admires and adores, beyond all sense of proportion - has, with her 'knowing' look, exposed Micky, for what he is.
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, has revealed Micky's home-truths - for all to see.
Micky's former school friends - especially his former best class-mate, Al Wallace - Micky believes, will no longer be able to look Micky in the eye, from sheer embarrassment.
 
Chief Stewardess Julie Jones: that prize bitch - of the first-water, can't wait to tell Micky's sister, Elaine (and, through her, his whole family), that her "pesky, obnoxious, and disrespecting" younger brother, has been assigned a placement with her Company, SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS, and - get this! - is now actually one of the 'footsniffers'!
Oh, yes! That'll ruddy well teach him! That will put pesky, obnoxious, and disrespecting Micky McArdle well and truly in his place - for good!, Micky could almost hear her thinking.
 
First, though, Chief Stewardess Julie Jones has got some extremely gratifying business, and an incredibly satisfying score, to settle, with "the A.S.B.O. Kid".
She has promised to make Micky - actually force him - to smell her nasty, stinky feet, during the turn-around at Corfu Airport.
And - Heaven help Micky - but, he can't wait!
Micky can't wait, either - Heaven help him! - to, upon their return to Manchester Airport in the wee, small hours, to obediently and compliantly sit on the floor of the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Crew Room during the post-flight de-brief and, be gloatingly and gleefully ordered, by Chief Stewardess Julie Jones - that prize bitch, of the first-water - to take off her Uniform Issue, dark-blue pumps, and to massage her hot and sweaty, tired and achey, dark hosed, stinky feet, for her - as Micky had no doubt, that she most assuredly would!
And Micky can't wait, either - Heaven help him! -  for Chief Stewardess Julie Jones, to callously and cruelly command the sleep-deprived, exhausted Micky, to clean and polish her shoes, for her: so that they are nice and clean and shiny, for when she wears them again - before finally allowing the poor and put-upon lad to go home to his bed, to snatch what little, meagre and grossly insufficient sleep, he can, before returning to report for Duty at 06:00, to operate, under Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, as an Air Purification Technician on the SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS Flight to Izmir, in Turkey.
 
Just one day ago, Micky would have thought that he would have actually curled up into a ball, shrivelled up, and died, of sheer embarrassment and unbearable shame if, somehow, his closely-guarded, "little secret" somehow became common knowledge: if, somehow, some unknown woman, had seen right through him, with her seemingly x-ray vision - with her 'knowing' look.
And exposed him - for what he was.
And, revealed his home-truths - for all to see.
 
But now, though... Micky felt... Free!
As free as a bird!!
Soaring: "as high as a kite - higher than the plane!"
Micky actually felt, as if he honestly could not give a hoot (to sanitize, somewhat, what would be Micky's own, decidedly earthier and more 'colourful' epithet!), about who knew about his heretofore, jealously-guarded "little secret" - his home-truth.
 
Within the space of a single day - in less than 24 hours! - Micky's whole-wide-world had changed: changed, beyond all recognition; changed, irrevokably; changed, forever.
And, there was no going back, for Micky.
Now, Micky McArdle has actually got what he wants - exactly, what he wants - and, what he needs.
His heart's desire.
A new, undreamed of, Paradise of being.
This, is how he wants to live his life, and how he wants his life to be - spent, and devoted, in the humble service of female feet.
For Micky, the inexplicable, almost magical, magnetic, irresistible allure, of female feet, his deep and profound respect, reverence, and worship, even, of female feet, are what make Micky tick, and are what make his world go round: are crucial, to his whole sense of well-being - to his fulfilment.
 
Chief Stewardess Amanda Forbes, was right, when she said that Micky loves feet.
For Micky, female feet - the heady, dizzying, intoxicating, extreme close-up proximity, of female feet: the sight, of them; the feel, of them; the smell, of them - have become his raison d'etre.
His must-have, female-feet-fix.
His fulfilment.
 
 
And now, through the unwitting (and certainly, unintentional!) courtesy of Prime Minister Caroline Flint, and her Authoritarian Female Party, the golden key, to his veritable female-foot-fest, to his must-have, female-feet-fix, to his fulfilment - his raison d'etre - has been handed to him on a silver platter.
 
In a new, female-friendly Britain - a Britain, governed by the highly charismatic, and inspired genius of Prime Minister Caroline Flint, and her Cabinet of able, capable women, and her exclusively female Members of Parliament who, collectively, are the Authoritarian Female Party - the days of the male malingerers, the workshy layabouts, the free-lunch-eaters, and the 'career claimants', are well and truly numbered.
 
The Authoritarian Female Party, who are the gifted, highly motivated, and supremely innovative infrastructural architects, busily building and re-constructing this new, female-friendly, male-subjugated Britain - and, who are directly responsible, for Micky McArdle's being assigned a 'placement', as an Air Purification Technician for SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS - are wasting no time, in honouring the promises of their Electoral Pledges.
 
And, every passing day, in every part of Britain, males - males, who are claiming Unemployment Benefit; males, who are claiming Disability Benefit; males, who have no job to go to, upon their leaving education - are nervously wondering, with a creeping, pervading sense of dread: Where will my assignment be? What will my 'placement' be?
 
Will today, they wonder, be the fateful day, when the Postman has a little something for them, from their local Job Centre - will today be the day, when they receive their Letter Of Notification?
 
 
                     THE END.

This story is written by David, please send comments and appreciation to voondave@yahoo.co.uk