That is quite a story and one you will certainly never forget. It is one thing to be in an emergency and another to realize those you should be able to look to for safety or at least guidance have abandoned their duties.
Thank God a leader was amongst you. This story and others coming to my attention lately demonstrate we all need to be prepared to take care of ourselves and our own.
Local TV news reported last night on an incoming commercial flight from Maui that sat on the tarmac for hours without any explanation to the passengers. During this time, the crew “clocked out” and left the airplane. Can you believe this. The major airline admits they are short-handed these days. I’m sorry I can’t find the story right now.
And I was thinking more about our conversation. The fundamental problem here is that we are discouraging and discrediting serious people in favor of whooping it up over the nincompoops and non-serious people.
Of course, you can do both — you can encourage serious people and whoop it up over the nincompoops. But our society is not doing that.
No one seems to even know how to approach a situation as a serious person. It’s all hahaha, mocking and adolescent pranksterism.
Sickening about the Maui flight. I know people with certain medical conditions — they can’t be on a flight for untold hours. I myself have a family member that travels with medicine that must be kept cold. So we keep it in a little cooler we carry on. Sometimes airport security will limit us to one ice pack — they throw the rest away. We protest, what if we get delayed? What if we are on the tarmac for several extra hours — we lose a $2,500 dose of medicine because YOU think one ice pack is “enough”?
One lady told us “you can always ask the flight attendants for extra ice.” Yes, if the delay happens onboard. And if the attendants haven’t clocked out and left the passengers there to wait it out.