Hooked on Fenix

Ok, I know I haven’t even gotten to the “We’re on the ground in Tampa” stories. Sorry. After my movie fiasco I had two hours to kill, so I actually wrote down some things I noticed. For the better part of the last two hours I watched the “Your journey” screen on the in flight television system. If you’re not familiar with this system it basically scrolls through a bunch of screens telling you how far you are from your destination, how fast you are going and gives you a picture of a little plane making its way to Tampa. I won’t get into it too much but here is what happens when you stare at this screen for almost 2 hours.

• The math is wrong. Flying at the speed we were flying at and the miles it said we were from our destination, well it was just wrong. Trust me, I did the math about 50 times.
• Why is the map in Spanish when the flight originated from London and is arriving in Tampa?
• Is the Spanish word for Phoenix really Fenix?
• Why would you put Godthab on any map? (Look it up – I had to)

There ya go…I have 5 more things written down but they will only make sense in my head now.

Synch or swim

So we’re on the plane right? I settle in, start to peruse the movie offerings and realize that I’m going to be able to watch like 3 movies during this marathon flight home. I flip through the in-flight movie offerings and get even more psyched…WOW! There’s like 5 movies I would like to see here, including a bunch of new releases. This is where things go south. I cheerfully TRY to plug the headphones into the jack, but it won’t go in. The flight attendant comes over to try, as if there is some different way of plugging in a set of headphones. There are no other seats on the flight, so changing seats is out. Don’t worry though because the flight attendant has a great idea….ready? She offers me…drum roll…the NEWSPAPER! I really tried not to give her the “Are you kidding me?” look, I really did. To be fair she also offered me a comment card. At this point me and the old lady next to me worked out what seemed to be a great deal. We would both start the same movie at the same time and I would use her audio and my video. This would have worked out perfectly, but this lady had some sort of malady that caused her to bump the screen about every 15 minutes which resulted in HER movie being paused. I played the fast forward – pause synchronization game for 3 different movies, it was quite relaxing. I guess I’m glad I had this option, because I’m pretty sure I wasn’t going to be reading the newspaper for 6 hours. I wish British Airways would have broken some guitars instead of their planes.