The Wandering Salesman

I love America.

Yesterday, a career flight attendant obviously lost the will to live, burst into a tirade of abuse against a passenger and then promptly did a runner via the emergency slide, armed with his bags. And 2 beers.

Good for him.

Yesterday wasn’t a good day to travel. There were misconnections all over the place, weather related delays up the wazoo and I have no idea why, but more people than I have ever seen travelling on a Monday.

I’m not sure though if “just a busy day on the job” warrants a full blown melt-down.

The blogosphere salivated while it lit up with the news. The rogue flight attendant in question even has his own Facebook fan pages already running. Don’t you just love the internet.

Maybe JetBlue wanted the publicity. Maybe it was a slow news day and one of the big networks wanted a lead story. Who knows.

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