July 31, 2012

J. Greely Broke the Plane

...rather impressively I might add.

The plane is quite broke.

5 hours after our scheduled departure time from Detroit, Delta finally threw in the towel and cancelled the flight altogether. Given the havoc even a 3 hour delay is going to play with transfers this was likely the right call. We've been given meal, taxi and hotel vouchers. I'm in a hotel in Romulus courtesy of Delta, which has actually handled this situation pretty well. It's not every day an airline has to deal with J Greely's amazing jinx powers. After all, we've seen what he can do with tramp tats.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at 07:27 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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OK, you got it out of the way. Now the rest of your trip will be smooth sailing!

Right? right?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tue Jul 31 21:24:23 2012 (+rSRq)

2 Optimist.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tue Jul 31 23:22:28 2012 (bqvkh)

3 DON'T JINX HIM!!!! (sheesh)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tue Jul 31 23:44:10 2012 (+rSRq)

4 "oops"

Posted by: J Greely at Wed Aug 1 01:03:11 2012 (2XtN5)

5 8/1/12, 730am Central:  his new flight out of Detroit is delayed. 

Posted by: Wonderduck at Wed Aug 1 07:51:43 2012 (bqvkh)

6 I really hope you're joking.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Aug 1 09:54:48 2012 (+rSRq)

7 I'm afraid I wasn't, Steven.  At the time, he said it was an "one hour delay."  My guess is that he's just leaving Detroit right about now... at 902pm Central.

Actually, my guess is that he got off relatively smoothly after the delay, because I haven't gotten another text from him since.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Wed Aug 1 21:03:10 2012 (bqvkh)

8 sigh....  Well, there is an old, old saying from the dawning of commercial aviation:  "If you've time to spare, travel by air."  We can hope this is the worst difficulty he faces on the trip.

Posted by: JT at Thu Aug 2 10:50:15 2012 (iStSI)

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