>>>Yeah, that's a good one. I hear that a lot. I also love to "take" a meeting because I've always felt that "have" is such an ugly and despicable word.
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>>Well you could always "attend" a meeting. If you're in charge you could "direct" it.
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>So the steward(esse)s were in charge of, well, stewardship of the flight. Now they are replaced with "flight attendants", who are not supposed to do anything, just attend the flight. Sort of a "just be there" job. Well, now that you don't even get peanuts or coffee or anything if the flight is shorter than about two hours, the expression has become correct.
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Aye, the airlines are getting meaner and meaner. My recent flight to Egypt was over five hours and all that was available free was a water fountain tap set in the bulkheads - self-service. I've discerned that their main job is to just go around and tell you off for not wearing a seat-belt or still having your iPod switched on (as this snooty, spiky-haired, slender, gay, Scots Little-Hitler demonstrated - no "please", just the order). I think they see their jobs now as not so much to serve us as to keep us in line!

>Did you notice that nobody's in charge of doing anything at Walmart? There are no workers, only associates. I.e. members of a society. They just go there and make each other company.

Well I wouldn't notice owt about them as there is none in England; they took over the Asda supermarket chain.