Sunday, October 14, 2007

Atlanta

We had a nice flight to Atlanta. We felt sorry for the flight attendant because he was a hulk of a man like a linebacker. His head grazed the ceiling and when he walked down the aisle each shoulder grazed the overhead bins. It was a small plane.

We have a 3 hour layover here and fly out on Delta flt#1273 to Honolulu.

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3 comments:

Bolo said...

Aaaahhh, the good ol' ATL. Did you know that because Hartsfield-Jackson is a Delta hub, they'll say "Dixie" or "David" instead of "Delta" when using the phonetic alphabet?

3:43 AM
Rich said...

Yeah, we noticed that on their "terminal train". The computerized station announcement would drone "The next station is Concourse C as in Charlie", but when it got to "D as in Delta" it said "D as is David". It makes sense. I'm surprised anyone else noticed. I thought it was a ham radio thing (the ITU Phonetic Alphabet).

4:19 AM
Bolo said...

I didn't actually notice it, just found that out while reading up on phonetic alphabets. I definitely will the next time I pass through Atlanta, though...hopefully that's sooner rather than later, as passing through Atlanta usually entails a wee bit of a "stopover" in Honolulu ;) I figured you would be appreciative of that little factoid, though...one of those things we geeky types get geeked up over noticing.

5:17 AM

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