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Aug. 10th, 2006 10:23 amOkay, foiled terror plot, very scary, but the article on the homepage for The New York Times online? Has some of the funniest snippets ever.
About the long lines at Heathrow: David Charters of Princeton, who arrived around 6:30 am for a 9 am flight to Calgary, was unsure he would make his flight, but was not making a fuss. “If you’re not patient, you shouldn’t be flying because things like this happen,’’ he said. “That’s why they have bars here."
BWaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha!!! I love the English.
And the woman who wished it was still okay to throw tantrums at 40? Priceless. "How long is this going to take and what else are you going to do?" They wanted to know? A customer service agent for British Airways told passengers, “The only thing we know for sure is Christmas Day falls on Dec. 25.”
Seriously though, they better have so dynamite (oops, tasteless pun, my bad) in-flight entertainment for people, because they're leaving iPods, books, personal computers and DVD players in those carry-ons they can't take with. And, with the way airlines have been going of late, people are going to have to start shelling out more for flights because you better believe they'll take advantage of the fact that people can't bring beverages on board any more. Hey, it's alarmist-sounding, sure, but remember, meals used to be free on all cross-country flights and on many shorter ones that were aloft during meal times. Now, you pay $5 for a fruit sampler and $10 for a sandwich half the size of a hot-pocket. "Oooooh, sorry, folks, because of terrorism, you can just chuck those airport-$3-a-bottle waters right out here. Once we're in the air, you can pay just as much for a half-can of soda, if you're still thirsty."
About the long lines at Heathrow: David Charters of Princeton, who arrived around 6:30 am for a 9 am flight to Calgary, was unsure he would make his flight, but was not making a fuss. “If you’re not patient, you shouldn’t be flying because things like this happen,’’ he said. “That’s why they have bars here."
BWaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha!!! I love the English.
And the woman who wished it was still okay to throw tantrums at 40? Priceless. "How long is this going to take and what else are you going to do?" They wanted to know? A customer service agent for British Airways told passengers, “The only thing we know for sure is Christmas Day falls on Dec. 25.”
Seriously though, they better have so dynamite (oops, tasteless pun, my bad) in-flight entertainment for people, because they're leaving iPods, books, personal computers and DVD players in those carry-ons they can't take with. And, with the way airlines have been going of late, people are going to have to start shelling out more for flights because you better believe they'll take advantage of the fact that people can't bring beverages on board any more. Hey, it's alarmist-sounding, sure, but remember, meals used to be free on all cross-country flights and on many shorter ones that were aloft during meal times. Now, you pay $5 for a fruit sampler and $10 for a sandwich half the size of a hot-pocket. "Oooooh, sorry, folks, because of terrorism, you can just chuck those airport-$3-a-bottle waters right out here. Once we're in the air, you can pay just as much for a half-can of soda, if you're still thirsty."
