The Good, The Bad & The Plain Ugly
We’ve all had at least one. That moment when everything conspires to keep you from paradise – and you find yourself staring down the back end of a meltdown.
You aren’t alone. Previously considered self-indulgent and adolescent, emotional outbursts at airports and hotels are all the rage. Polite Canadians are embracing the meltdown as a fast track to relieving travel stress. [The damage left in the wake of these eruptions is another matter.]
A recent spate of incidents range from garden variety tantrums to full-fledged melodrama.
On a return Air Canada flight from LA last week, I witnessed a young mother call the female flight attendant a cow. The attendant quickly gained the upper hand by retorting “bitch” and coolly holding the mother and her two children captive behind her cart for 15 minutes. Obviously, this was not her first mid-air row. (Had the mother chosen to pick on a WestJet attendant, she would have had more success. They tend to be more docile – even at ground level.)
Daily Dispatches
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Colorado? Your first response was probably not ‘wine’.
