Well. Just one thing today, actually. Your pilot. Who keeps updating you from the cockpit about why you're stuck on the tarmac.
"We have a maintenance issue."
"Maintenance should be here soon."
"There are so many redundant systems on a plane like this, you don't know what is wrong when you get a message like the error message we just got."
"But your safety is our utmost concern."
"It's a switch problem."
"We're replacing the switch."
"Maintenance is on their way with the part now."
"Maintenance is here now, replacing the switch."
"Replacing a switch takes 10 minutes. That's good news."
"Okay. We can take off as soon as everybody gets out of the lavatory."
Maybe it's comforting to other passengers to hear updates like this from the pilot. But I'm not one of them. In fact, I don't want to see or hear my pilot. I don't want to experience my pilot as a human being at all. I just want to pretend it's the Almighty Himself sitting up there.
Flying my damn airplane to North Carolina so we can see our son graduate.
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Congratulations on the graduating son! And on getting to see a grandchild, right? Go with God.
I hope that this will prove edifying:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_heard
Congratulations on the graduation, and I hope you're snuggling that baby already.
That's funny but so true. A graduating son. And a grandchild? The force will be with you.
Why do they find these problems after we're on the airplane? My question then is, what if they find the problem after we're in the air?
Congrats all around.
Hilarious! I feel the same way about the pilot. Much rather they seemed mysteriously invincible.
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