adventures in *

Over the North Atlantic

During the flight to Philadelphia, I ordered a sandwich for lunch. As I was handing the steward my credit card, he said “I don’t need that, Ill trade the sandwich for your Blackberry.” I told him I’d be lost without it.

He replied, “It’s better to be lost than to be hungry.” Something to ponder. I’m probably over thinking it, needless to say, I kept my phone.

Then leaving Philadelphia to Oslo, the plane was taxiing down the runway and the captain announced that a thunderstorm cell was in our flight path. New York center air traffic control needed to re-route us but their system was down. They needed to manually re-route, I imagine it was a bunch of chimpanzees with slide-rules drawing over maps. While they were working on that, we pulled off to the side of the runway and waited. After an hour, we had a new flight plan and were on our way to Oslo.