Another day my post from yesterday got hijacked!

I was flying in from Denver to Detroit today and the flight was delayed, go figure. The flight was coming in from Minnisota and it was late, it happens. My flight Detroit to Denver on Friday was delayed, seems to be happening a bit lately, ok.

When a flight is delayed, that means that people with connecting flights could have a problem, obvious, right? Who should you get mad at when there is a chance you might miss your flight, it’s the luck of the draw. There’s no way to predict that a flight will be delayed, coming in from one place, due to weather, whatever.

The one thing that the flight crew will do is ask that people who are at their final destination to sit tight and wait to get off the plane so that the people with connecting flights have the chance to make thier next flight. Do you think it works every time? Not a chance! I’ve been on a bunch of flights that it happens and lots that it doesnt.

The guy next to me was fidgity from the word go. I’m not sure if he just doesn’t fly often, is a nervous flier or just an angry guy, a butt head, so to speak. When I got on the plane to my middle seat, he seemed put out that he had to move his sandwich, so sorry. Then when we were delayed a little more getting off the ground, he asked the flight attendant what we were waiting on.

He was fidgity and restless and unnerved the entire flight, when he wasn’t asleep, that was the best time. When we landed, he wanted to know why we weren’t at the gate immediately after landing, you know, that whole taxiing to the gate thing. Then huffing and puffing and standing up and practically walking over me and the guy in the aisle seat. When he was trying to barrel over everyone, whining and complaining the entire time, everyone was standing and trying to get off the plane to make their connections as well, I had the priviledge of seeing more of his britches than I was quite prepared for, thank you very much.

Eventually, people started to move and then it was his turn, I sat for a while longer until it was my turn to get off the plane and go down to luggage claim.

If there’s nothing you can do because you have no control over the situation, then relax and know that what will happen will happen and the airline will do what it can to help get you where you need to go. I am not a rah rah rah cheerleader for the airline, I have been put out by flights more than twice, but what can I do? Get upset? Nasty? Just go with it and do what you can to get where you need to go.

And leave the rest of us out of your misery. Thank you.