Sitting in the Anchorage airport

Well yesterday afternoon and evening was spent getting from Memphis to Anchorage. When we boarded the plane in Memphis for the flight to Minneapolis, the pilot "informed" us that we would be delayed "a few minutes" for a maintance issue. As always seems to be the case, the “bitching” started almost instantly. A “gentleman” (Ralph says he was no gentleman) a few rows in front of me started cussing and using words I had to look up in Mr Webster’s book. He seemed to be fueling the other passenger’s frustration. Now understand that the entire delay was less than ten minutes. The pilot informed us that the “maintance” had been completed and he would do his best to make up some time in the air and have us to Minneapolis on time.

Unfortunately, this did little to quell the “bitching passengers” nor did it improve their vocabulary. Fortunately for Ralph and I there were no small children on the flight. The flight was basically uneventful after that. Our captain, true to his word, had us deplaning eight minutes before we were originally scheduled to arrive in Minneapolis.

Now I do not profess to be the “brightest bulb” on the tree, BUT, I am personally glad someone found the “maintance issue” prior to our take off. I felt sorry for the flight crew because of the verbal comments and snotty attitude that several passengers had during the flight. I wonder how they would have felt had we needed to make and emergency landing because the “maintance issue” was not addressed prior to take off? What if it had caused an in flight emergency or resulted in major equipment failure?

Every time I witness these delays and the passengers reactions, Ralph repeats the words of Ron White in my ear over and over:

“We will be the first ones at the crash site”……

Have a great day!