One story I can relate happened a few years ago. After Christmas break we were flying from Louisville to VA Beach with a stopover in Baltimore. My 7 yr old autistic son's don't-wanna-wear-a-seatbelt tantrum slightly delayed the Louisville - Baltimore leg (the stewardesses were SO helpful, understanding and didn't kick us off the plane, God bless them). The kicker was that by the time we finally got off the ground and to cruising altitude he was sound asleep and snoring (and stayed that way for the rest of the flight). To make things even MORE interesting, the turbulence was bad enough the WHOLE way so that we were stuck in our seats the entire time. No matter - my four year old son sat next to me and said 'WHEEEEE' every time the plane lurched. That got a few laughs.
My flight was landing at sunset in DEN a few weeks ago, and a couple of miles to the west was a viscous micro-burst.
It looked like a bag of flour was being poured out of the lighting laden clouds, as a circular wall of dust hundreds of feet tall was being kicked up around the downpour.
The video game sounding avionics alarms went off as we suddenly lost too much of what little elevation we had left.
The pilot did a swell job out saving our bacon, and his face howed a bit of trauma when I congratulated him after our safe landing.
After years of leaving from JFK, I LOVE Atlanta International Airport. I reckon everything is relative!