06-04-2014, 12:41 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=hal]
[quote=Bimwad]
Three hours before the flight on my outbound leg of the trip...flight cancelled, with no explanation.
Hour and half before the flight on my return leg...flight cancelled for some "operational" thing. Not a tinge of regret, nor remorse from reservations agent.
Once, I can accept. Twice, on the same trip, that's BS. The weather is good, and these are frequent commuter-type flights.
Won't bother with a fracking airline that doesn't adhere to their schedules for no good reason.
I've taken them only once before. This will be the last time.
It occurs to me that this post could really use the eustacetilley treatment
"did I ever tell you about the time..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkVAlI2IIvI&feature=kp
C. Aubrey Smith:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Aubrey_Smith
"Commander McBragg in the TV cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a parody of him."
Did I ever tell you about the time that I first saw "The Four Feathers"? It was just after "Lawrence Of Arabia" had come out, and the local American Legion Post had secured a copy of the 1939 film.
Our whole Cub Scout pack crowded around the time ravaged images while all the adults crowded the Bar and told their own War Stories from two decades back.
C. Aubrey Smith plays the role of a retired General who spends his time reminiscing, and provides the punchline to the film when it is revealed that his memory is, shall we say, very selective.
Over the years, I have heard many Old Farts tell their Tall Tales, but one very funny and jovial Geezer that I worked with briefly wouldn't participate, and in fact would quietly leave when War Stories came up.
I was never in any sort of Military, so I never really got the references and inside jokes.
At the Geezer's Retirement Party, somebody congratulated him, and mentioned in passing that the Geezer had been a survivor of the Bataan Death March.
Things got _very_ quiet at that point.
Eustace.
(Another sort of Full Eustace; this one involves a total derailment of the conversation, and a chance to remember somebody who would otherwise be long forgotten.)