Jeez, what a day. Pissed off Okla fans take it out on me...

[karlrschneider]

Got a phone call early this morning from the prez of a company I occasionally 'fill-in' to fly one of
their planes if the regular pilots are out of pocket. Some of his buddies are stuck in Phoenix after
going to the Fiesta Bowl last night which I stayed up very late to watch and he wants me to 'run out there and bring them home'. (He looks at maps and says stuff like "hey it's only 4 inches away")
:eyes:

So I manage to wake up and drive down to the airport...they didn't bother to put fuel in the plane.
Great. After calling everybody except the Avon Lady I finally locate one of the line guys to come out and unlock the fuel tanks. Promised him a jug of Crown Royal for his trouble...now I gotta figure out what to call that on the expense report.

Coming into the Phoenix area I realize he didn't tell me which airport the people are waiting at.
I assume (yeah, tell me) it's Glendale which is right next to the stadium so I drop in there and
don't see them anywhere. And my cell phone battery is dead and I can't remember Mr. Bill's
home number (where he's obviously relaxing & recovering from last night.) Several pay-phone calls
later, I get through to him, and...they're over at the Scottsdale airport! :eyes:

An uneventful 4 minute flight later, I finally locate this bunch (6 of them) waiting impatiently
for their special express ride home. Luckily, I recognized one guy, the others I didn't know.
I said "okay let's go"...they start climbing into the plane - 3 of them either were still drinking
or hadn't stopped...the last guy looks at me and says "Where the hell is your uniform?"

I said, "sir, I don't own a uniform, and don't wear one either." He says "Well I don't know if I
want to fly with someone who looks like a slob." I replied "Fine, you can wait here for the next
ride or catch a taxi over to Sky Harbor and buy a ticket on a plane with a well-dressed pilot.
I wore an Air Force uniform in the 1960s and I'm done with it. In fact, I don't own a suit, a tie
or a dress shirt any more. You can probably buy this here airplane, though...I know Mr. Bill is looking for a bigger one - he told me he would take one million, seven hundred fifty thousand for it so feel free to write a check right now and you can fire me and fly the thing yourself."

The guy I remembered, he had ridden with me before, said "Goddammit Jerry get in the goddamn plane and shut up!" I had to bite my lip, seriously, to keep from LOL or asking the guy if he was a Republican.
(Not that there's any doubt) :D

Stopped at the liquor store on the way home & and got TWO bottles...one's for me.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I like your story. Must be great to fly where ever you want.

[karlrschneider]

7. If it were only that easy...I usually go when somebody ELSE wants to.

I can easily 'borrow' a plane but buying the fuel is really expen$ive these days (over $4 a gallon most places.) At 4 miles/gallon...well, unless I can scare up some friends to split the cost it's too much for this poor Democrat. ;-)

[flyarm]

2. YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD THEM...

I DRESS LIKE A SLOB SO WHEN I SLAM YOU WITH NEGATIVE G'S..AND YOU PUKE.. I DON'T MESS MY GOOD CLOTHES!!

AND HAVE A FORK IN YOUR HAND ..AND SAY..AND i SAVE THE BIG CHUNKS FOR THE MECHANICS..!!

GOTTA ALWAYS BE PREPARED WITH SOME GOOD LINES!!

FLY

[flyarm]

6. WHILE FLYING WITH THE AIRLINES..I USED TO

PUT A PIECE OF PLASTIC FROM FOOD CARTS ON THE FRONT OF MY APRON WHEN WE HAD BAD TURBULANCE.. and people were puking...and i used to go to the sick folks with a fork and puke bag .and tell them i was saving the big chuncks for catering..in case they wanted to recycle!! i would say..they recyle everything you know..........it would make the people around the pukers laugh...

wtf..not much you can do in a tube in the air!!....when the air stinks......

fly

[acmejack]

3. Oh they had to be pissed!

I watched that last minute shot of the OU fan beaming when OU made the two point conversion the (second time). They showed the same guy a moment later when BSU made their two pointer, he wasn't happy at all. "Biggest thing to hit Idaho since the Potato!", so says the Governor.

[LiberalFighter]

4. So it's all your fault the OK's were behind in the first half

All your fault that Boise State didn't fall apart.
All your fault that OK went for just the PAT instead of 2 points in the OT.
All your fault that Boise State played to win.

I thought it was OK that played in the game and not you. Should had told them that it's the NCAA's fault for not allowing more years of eligibility to play.

[bigbrother05]

8. May have been OU fans and also pissed off,

but didn't see any comment that indicated they blamed the guy or even mentioned the loss. Just your typical a-hole oil/corporate jerk trying to make a working man feel small. Think the pilot handled himself just fine, took no shit and showed him up for the prick he was.

Most guys with that kind of attitude don't need a heart-breaking loss by their home team to show their ass, just being awake is enough excuse. As the OP said, didn't have to ask if he was a repub.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Nice shot!

[KatyaR]

9. What the hell is wrong with people today?

If it had been me, I'd have been thankful not to have to fly commercial. Geez . . . .

Some people just think they're entitled to all kinds of crap, huh?

You handled it well, though--I would have been super embarassed.

[karlrschneider]

11. LOL...if you knew me personally, you'd get that I don't easily embarrass.

:D

I'm not a big guy but I learned to intimidate chickenshits many years ago. One time I told an abrasive prick "I WILL open the door and throw your ass out (at 16,000 feet over Texas) if you don't sit down and knock it off!" (He didn't know I couldn't have opened the door if I wanted to but he got the message.)

:evilgrin:

[sarcasmo]

10. I realize your a pilot, but as a Taxi driver I can relate to drunk Jackass's.

[karlrschneider]

12. Your occupation is every bit as honorable as mine or anyone else's!

I'm a taxi driver too, I just operate at somewhat higher altitudes. :-)

[conscious evolution]

13. LOL

'Promised him a jug of Crown Royal for his trouble...now I gotta figure out what to call that on the expense report.'
Call it an anti-icing lubricant.

[karlrschneider]

15. You know what, I would damn sure done that but there wasn't a cloud in the sky

between here and Arizona today. Not a bad thing really, I let the autopilot do 95% of the trip.
:D

[NaturalHigh]

14. I was pretty cranky after the game too...

but I wouldn't have taken it out on anybody. The fact is, there's nobody to blame but our own Sooners, and I even hesitate to do that (except for the four turnovers). Boise State whipped us, bottom line. Don't think that I'm happy to admit that, by the way.

From everything that I've seen, the Broncos have a classy program and a classy bunch of fans. It's not like we lost to USC (again).

[madokie]

16. That makes me laugh