This list is a good one. Some are obvious (“I have a bomb in my bag.”) while others aren’t as obvious (“If your airline goes out of business, what will happen to my miles?”). Not only are the examples given, but it’s also explained why you shouldn’t say these things.
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Okay Michael – point made. I would like to add comments not necessary for the pilot to say, like during my flight into SLC this week, the roughest I have experienced, fright clearly noticeable on many of the passengers faces. The pilot comes on, tells us we are in a thunderstorm, mentions the barf bags, tells us they are bringing in one plane at a time, so we are in a holding pattern and number 10 – 12 in line to land. Then adds: “being 10th in line keeps us holding for the next ten minutes, the problem we have only five minutes left of fuel! Was that necessary??
We landed to cheers from many passengers.
Hell yes! I’d say the fuel comment was completely unnecessary if not out of line.