Ungrateful Bastards

A plane scheduled to leave Columbus, Ohio the other day for Orlando, Florida was delayed and finally cancelled after 10 hours, during which the airline and its ground crews tried repeatedly to de-ice a plane that overnight had literally become frozen to the ground. These ground crews used three trucks of de-icing fluid (a single truck usually lasts for 3 days of de-icing operations) and yet the aircraft was still too iced up to fly safely. The company, AirTran, finally cancelled the flight and placed the passengers on another flight of theirs to Orlando. Not only that but they gave each passenger a free round trip ticket at a future date. Rarely does a company, especially an airline, take the hit for something like this and make good on the experience by not offering but giving each passenger what amounts to their money back in the form of a free round trip flight later.

So being the happy, forgiving, and social Americans that these passengers were they right away complained and moaned and whined about their so called most horrible experience they've ever had. Oh shut the hell up you babies. Is it the airline's fault that the weather turned to crap and put the plane under so much ice that it couldn't even move? Is it their fault that you were surprised that in January in Ohio that it is actually snowing and cold enough for ice to form? Be lucky that you still go to Orlando within the same 24 hours that you were expecting to anyway.

The most horrible experience ever? Try having your spouse shot in front of you because some crack-head wants the $5 you have. Try seeing your best friend's face smashed by a piece of valve that blew out due to high pressure in the line, all while you stand 2 feet away chatting about what the night's movie is going to be. Try riding through in a convoy and stopping at an intersection only to have a 9-year old child smile at you as they throw a hand grenade under the truck in you. Horrible? How the hell is sitting in an air-conditioned airplane with drinks and snacks and a bathroom available for you horrible? Sitting in an airport terminal for hours though there is plenty of shopping for you to do and restraunts to eat at is not a horrible thing. An inconvenience maybe, but not horrible. Shut up, deal with it, and get on with your whiny bitching life.