Profile
Photos
Comments
A crowded airline flight was canceled.
A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his
ticket down on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it
has to be FIRST CLASS!"
The agent replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you,
but I've got to help these folks first, and I'm sure we'll be able to
work something out. Please go to the end of the line."
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "Do you have any idea who I am?"
Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled and grabbed her public
address microphone. "May I have your attention please?" she began, her
voice bellowing throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at
the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his
identity, please come to the gate."
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man
glared at the airline agent, gritted his teeth and swore, fuck you!"
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to stand in line for that, too."
========================================================
I'm certainly hoping that doesn't happen to Holly when she leaves next week for Australia on business. She will be in the air for 21 hours with only one refueling stop. Then on the return trip, there will not even be a refueling stop. It will be nonstop from Sidney to Dallas.
She will actually have a couple of days of down time while in Sidney to do some sightseeing. Later in the week, she will fly on to Canberra for more meetings with their client.
This will be a joint venture between Holly's company and an Italian airline to sell some twenty military transports to the Aussies. So reps from the Italian airline will be there also.
The Italians build the planes and Holly's company customizes them for the specific company or country buying them: then, they are delivered to the buyers.
Anyway, I always get nervous when she has these long flights, although I know people fly back and forth from all over the world everyday.
They just don't happen to be my daughter.
