How I did that it was really quite simple. I called Pan American Airlines corporate headquarters and asked to speak to somebody in Purchasing. And when they came on, I simply said that I was a Pan Am pilot, and that I’d flown into New York the night before and I’d sent my uniform out to be dry cleaned, but now the dry cleaner in the hotel say they can’t find it, and that I had a flight in a few hours and no uniform. He said, ‘What about a spare uniform?’ I said ‘Yes, back home where I’m based in San Francisco, but I’d never get it here for my flight.’ He said, ‘Well you understand this would cost you, not the company, the price of a new uniform.’ I said, ‘Yes’, and he came back and said, ‘You’d need to go down to the Well Built Uniform Company on 5th Avenue, that’s our supplier or vendor, and they’ll take care of you. And I went down there and they fitted me out in the uniform, and when they were done they told me the uniform was $286, and I said, ‘Well I’ll write you a cheque,’ and of course the cheques were no good. But he said, ‘No, we can’t take any cheques.’ So I said, ‘Oh well then, I’ll just pay you cash.’ He said, ‘No, we can’t accept cash.’ He said, ‘You have to fill out this computer card, and in these boxes put your employee number, then we bill this back under Uniform Allowance, and it comes out of your next Pan Am paycheque.’ And I said, ‘Well that’s even better, go ahead and do that.
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