Do you have a plane? Excuse me sir - do you have a plane??

“This is your captain.  Believe it or not, there are still some of us at American Airlines that are trying to do our jobs and do them well.  I’m going to be delivering you good news and bad news.  Good news – we finally got our plane.  Bad news – there seems to be a problem with the nose cone and the radar.  They are doing an inspection of it right now.  The lamination isn’t as thick as they’d like to be.  They will be looking it over and letting me know.  We don’t have any refreshments on board so we are waiting for those to arrive as well.  I promise to tell you the good news and the bad news as I receive it.”

So we sit for a little while longer and back comes the captain again.

“Well, I promised to tell you the good news and the bad news.  And I’m sorry to say I have more bad news.  The lamination on the nose cone around the radar isn’t thick enough and we will have to find another plane.  (to which my dad says “Unbelievable!”) Yes, unbelievable!  So I am sorry you will have to deplane and we will hopefully find another plane for you.”

Riley started to cry “Why is our plane broken?”  She was very sad that the plane was broken.  And confused as to why we had to get off.  We explained it to her and said that we’d be flying soon enough – hopefully.

So we get off and get some strawberry sorbet in a waffle cone from Haagen Daz – after all, ice cream makes everything better J

They come over the speaker to say “We are hoping to find another plane for you and are looking for another one.  We’ll let you know if we find one.”  We wondered where they would find this mysterious plane that was just hanging around and where they were looking.

About 15 minutes later, they came over the speaker again and said “We are sorry to inform you that we could not find a plane.  This flight has been cancelled.  Your luggage will continue on to Boston on another flight. Please come to the counter to get a voucher.”