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Re: [OM] Aches and Pains

Subject: Re: [OM] Aches and Pains
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:11:38 -0800
On 2/20/2010 7:04 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> If you recall, one time I had a flight delayed because of a broken coffee 
> maker. I used that delay to write an episode of Vert and Toky.
>    

Ah, you remind me of the Great Passenger Revolt.

I was with some people from a Mexican banking group going from Mexico 
City to Culiacan, working on a joint venture. The bank's private plane 
was late, the heating had failed and there was one more of us that 
proper seats, so we gave up, booked on a commercial flight the next 
morning and stayed at an airport hotel.

The AeroMexico flight next morning was delayed again and again. When we 
were finally boarded, they announced another delay to fix an electrical 
malfunction. Culiacan is not a tourist destination; this flight was full 
of people on business like us, and the impatience was palpable.

When the repair guys finally showed up, they started working in the 
galley. Passengers in the front realized that they were fixing the 
coffee maker and passed on the word. Soon, the whole plane was full of 
passengers, many surging forward in the aisle, yelling that they didn't 
care about coffee, they just wanted to get the flight going. This being 
long pre 9/11 Mexico, not armed TSA USA, the passengers won.

The repairmen hustled off and we promptly took off.

Moose

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