A few days ago, while traveling back from the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida airport, there was a congestion of wheelchairs in the boarding area of a flight to New York City. There were 30 of these handicap accommodations waiting to pre-board the aircraft. (Full disclosure: mine was among them.) As a result, there was a conga line of full wheelchairs entering and empty ones leaving the plane. A Vietnam vet with two bullets in his leg and I chose to wait and walk aboard to speed things up.
Now this was on a flight of only 200 passengers ... so 15% of us oldsters were seriously handicapped physically ... and these numbers are only going to go up. This, dear readers, is the future of air travel.
Afterthought: Interestingly, all but two of the 30 walked off of the plane.
1 comment:
You bunch of fakers and line jumpers. except for the wounded Vet.
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