Saturday, May 12, 2007
So hey! Guess where we've been this past week! That's right, Disney World again.
Well, technically I was in Orlando, FL attending a conference. Sean and Sophie piggybacked on the employer-paid resort accommodations* and spent some quality father-daughter time at Disney World. I joined them at the Magic Kingdom after the conference ended on Wednesday.
* ROCK. ON. Not so much about the resort--which was nice and all--but about the employer-paid part. (Yeah, clearly I'm still detoxing from the Company Y Experience.)
Now, y'all know that I can never just get on a plane, go somewhere, and arrive back home on a plane without some sort of drama happening, right? For example, the Minnesota trip where the guy was hauled off the plane by marshalls. And the Ohio trip where the pilot pulled the plane over mid-taxi to go bitch out an uppity passenger. This trip did not disappoint in the drama department.
Picture it: a full Boeing 737 high above the East Coast approximately thirty-ish minutes into a flight. We were sitting about three-quarters of the way toward the rear of the plane. A flight attendant holding a tray of beverages was hovering at our row, about to deliver a couple of Cokes, when another flight attendant came running down the aisle yelling, "GO! GO! GO!" They both ran to the rear of the plane, but not before we heard the second flight attendant say, "There's a passenger who's got a--!"
Go ahead, fill in the blank. Needless to say, that's what everybody on the plane was doing at that moment.
We looked to the back of the plane. Both flight attendants had picked up the phones.
We looked to the front of the plane. Another flight attendant was on the intercom to the cockpit.
We looked at the passengers around us. That blank we had all filled in? Very obviously there was a pretty narrow range of guesses. The woman across the aisle from us started to hyperventilate.
After some of the longest, most panicked minutes certainly of my life, one of the flight attendants got on the cabin intercom to ask for any and all medical professionals to come forward. Evidently a passenger in the front of the plane was having some problems. Insert 200 [guilty] sighs of relief from the rest of the passengers here. As far as in-flight emergencies go, a passenger with a heart problem is definitely not a great situation but infinitely better than a passenger with, say, an incendiary device.
Despite some minor medical work going on in the front of the plane, the rest of the flight was uneventful. Upon landing the sick passenger received some attention from paramedics. She was apparently in satisfactory enough condition to be released to go fetch her luggage since we saw her standing at the baggage carousel a few minutes later.
By the way, the conference was great! I'm going to another conference in a few months, this time in California. For those of you keeping track, that's at least five nonstop hours of potential in-flight weirdness and drama EACH WAY. Neat.
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