Did you know that flight attendants are legally required to hand you a napkin whenever they give you a drink?
Me neither!
And yet, that’s what a Delta flight attendant told me on my flight back from London a couple of weeks ago, as she was serving me a Diet Coke. I was reading my newspaper when they came round with the drinks trolley, and since they never give you the whole can anymore, I just wanted to hang onto the plastic cup without deploying the tray. So with newspaper in one hand, and a cup of Diet Coke in the other, I declined the proffered napkin.