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An
award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in Denver for being
smart and funny, and making her point, when confronted with a passenger
who probably deserved to fly as cargo.
During the final days at Denver's old Stapleton airport, a crowded United flight was canceled.
A
single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his
ticket down on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it
has to be FIRST CLASS."
The
agent replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but
I've got to help these folks first, and I'm sure we'll be able to work
something out."
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "Do you have any idea who I am?"
Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone.
"May
I have your attention please?" she began, her voice bellowing
throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at the gate WHO DOES
NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please
come to the gate."
With
the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at
the United agent, gritted his teeth and swore.
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to stand in line for that, too."
The
man retreated as the people in the terminal applauded loudly. Although
the flight was canceled and people were late, they were no longer angry
at United.
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Morning Funnies
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Birthdays on October 28th
1955
- Bill
Gates
1967 - Julia Roberts
1903 - Evelyn Waugh
1969 - Ben Harper
1962 - Daphne Zuniga
1967 - Julia Roberts
1903 - Evelyn Waugh
1969 - Ben Harper
1962 - Daphne Zuniga
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Todays Picdump
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| Crappy Costume |
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Blast from the Past
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Afternoon Funnies
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| Never give up |
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This day in History
- Lead Story
- Gateway Arch completed, 1965
- American Revolution
- British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston, 1775
- Automotive
- Leif Erickson Tunnel completes 1,593-mile I-35, 1992
- Civil War
- The Second Battle of Fair Oaks concludes, 1864
- Cold War
- The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end, 1962
- Crime
- Chuck Berry goes on trial for the second time, 1961
- Disaster
- Cyclone intensifies near India, 1999
- General Interest
- Statue of Liberty dedicated, 1886
- Congress enforces prohibition, 1919
- Hollywood
- Julia Roberts born, 1967
- Literary
- George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession is performed in New York, 1905
- Music
- President Bill Clinton signs the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law, 1998
- Old West
- Workers complete the famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, 1965
- Presidential
- Grover Cleveland dedicates Statue of Liberty, 1886
- Sports
- Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country, 1922
- Vietnam War
- Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, 1962
- U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing of North Vietnam., 1964
- Viet Cong commandos raid U.S. airfields, 1965
- World War I
- German sailors begin to mutiny, 1918
- World War II
- Italy invades Greece, 1940
