When I got to my gate at LaGuardia tonight I was encouraged to see an aircraft actually sitting on the field at the end of our jetway. That was better than the fiasco American Airlines put me through yesterday morning, with late-arriving plane reporting a "maintenance issue" and a resulting two hour delay to work into my travel/meeting plans.

Asshats.

But tonight would be different: we had ourselves a plane!

No crew, though. They were coming in from Raleigh Durham (I recall that happening to me in the past), and even when they landed it took them forever to get to our gate. And when we finally pushed back the pilot kindly announced that we were 20th in line for takeoff.

American Airlines sucks the bat-wang.

But somehow in the crush of tiny seating I managed to not crush the black and white cookies smuggled home for Da Chimpz.