Apparently, a bunch of Air Canada passengers were confined in a plane on the tarmac for about 12 hours before it finally got off the ground.  I can’t remember which comic it was that was talking about this but people do sure seem ungrateful when it comes to the miracle of flight.  It’s truly astonishing.  One moment you’re handing your ticket to some bar bouncer turned wannabe polite lady at the airport and the next moment you’re thousands of feet above the ground…in a chair.  Despite this, people still find all kinds of ways to complain.

Now I know sitting around for 12 hours is a pain in the ass but this is just silly.  “We felt like hostages” is not what I would expect of people having to suffer a 12 hour wait in a grounded airplane.  Well, scratch that.  I totally expect it, I just don’t happen to think it’s very well justified.  Some people even think they should have been allowed to get a hotel room which strikes me as plainly stupid.  What, you want to get a hotel room every time the airline can’t figure out exactly when an airplane will get off the ground?  In this case, imagine after about an hour, people get hotel rooms.  It takes about an hour or even an hour and a half to get off the bloody plane and into a comfy room…10 hours later, they are told they have to get back to the tarmac, the plane is ready to go.  Spending 10 hours in a hotel room when you could have been sitting in a chair on an airplane for free seems like a pretty stupid waste of money if you ask me.

“It was stifled on the plane and they rationed water” they complained…oh heavens.  Sure the Air Canada staff should have simply gotten extra bottled water brought over from the terminal so the plane didn’t feel like a tubular concentration camp but all this whining is ridiculous.  People seem to think they would have been better off in the terminal and that seems like another stupid idea if you ask me.  If I have the choice between sitting on an airplane and spending 12 hours in a crowded terminal at the peak of the holiday travel season with people swarming everywhere, guess what I’ll choose!

Even at the end of the article, the quote sure doesn’t make it sound like it was all that bad.

We laughed and joked a lot and we shared things — I had snacks in my bag — and so I shared the snacks that I did have.

Oh no…you had to share your snacks and endure laughter and jocular commentary from your fellow passengers?  I can see why this was so terrible…I mean perhaps I would see if you were seated next to Tom Arnold but I don’t think he was on that flight.

Spending 12 hours on a plane isn’t the best way to spend your time sure but it’s hardly newsworthy or deserving of a comment like “We felt like hostages!”  Again, I think that perhaps people forget far too often that they are about to scream through the air at incredible speeds, thousands of feet above the ground in a flippin’ chair.  Having to wait 12 hours in a very rare case for that doesn’t seem so terrible to me.

All that being said, yes Air Canada sucks prickly cactus when it comes to customer service and WestJet kicks their butt in most every respect but I would have happily traded places with all of those passengers last night.  H Fractured her wrist and had to get a cast which wasn’t too too bad but getting stitches in her face was terrible.  Going through Lamaze like breathing exercises and trying to keep her calm as the doctor stitched her chin up was worse than anything you could suffer in a grounded plane I assure you.  Honestly…she’s more frightened of needles than I am of spiders…and that’s like Armageddon level scared.  Having a doctor hover over her with a needle running through her chin was a heck of an ordeal.

Seriously, get over it and enjoy your holidays you idiots…and kill a spider for me.

Oh and one more thing.  This post was worthy of the creation of a new blog category here on the Zach Bell Show.  Enjoy posts categorized under “Stupid People” from here on.