..The mile high club..This was back in the days of the Boeing 707, one of the early passenger jets. About 130 person capacity and seating 3 seats on each side of a center aisle. I was a business man living in Salvador, Brasil. Periodically, I would have to travel back to Houston for briefings etc, and this happened on a Varig night flight from Rio to Miami (8 hrs).
I checked in very early and had time to chat a bit with the check-in guy. He was also from Salvador and we connected about loving Bahia. At the end of the conversation, I tipped him a 20 Cruzero note and jokingly told him to seat me near the prettiest girl on the flight. He gave me a thumbs up and I thought no more about it.