.
The story is a "Squawk" from the tracking web site, Flight Aware. Many thanks to Tyler, who was watching his wife fly to her destination during my sermon on Sunday, and subsequently pointed me to this site.
And now... for you iPhone users...how NOT to use your iPhone.
One of our subscribers sent me this story today. We all knew this one was inevitable when the latest iPhone commercial rolled out -- now didn't we?"Oh joy! I can't wait for the next ground delay or long taxi due to weather somewhere to get a smart ass with a freakin I-phone shoving it in my face saying "It's NOT raining there... SEE !" Too late ... already happened to me. We push back, get advised of a ground stop in MEM due to storms in the area. Go to the penalty box and wait. My Captain does the lecture over the PA... not one minute later, we get dinged from the F/A "Some guy with an IPhone says the weather is good, and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?"
I want to tell this clown what he can do with his IdiotPhone - but the Captain does it even better. He gets on the PA and makes the following announcement :
"If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave."
Needless to say, the pax was pretty embarrassed. The F/A later told us the rest of the plane was outright laughing at this dude. What a clown."
3 comments:
Very funny and timely post. Jared will be taking his iPhone on a flight for the first time in two and a half weeks ;o)
Good luck and God bless on your trip to Honduras.
I promise I was paying attention.... I only "occasionally" glanced at the screen to see where she was at!
That was a good story. Stinking iPhone people.. think they rule the iWorld.... oh, hang on, my iPhone is ringing...
I pray you all will have a safe journey to and from.
at least ty is forthcoming about his activities during church! ;) but it's cute that he was keeping an "eye" on me.
great story. good technology in the hand of idiots. i love it!
(speaking of technology, podcasting totally ROCKS.)
the honduras people and the team are in my prayers this week.
Post a Comment