Air travel is a hassle. You have to arrive hours before your flight takes off so that you can wait in line to go through security where your personal space (and peanut butter) is violated and then as a reward for punctuality and cooperation you get to sit and wait to see if your plain will in fact leave on time.
So many things have to go right in order to ensure that your plain is at your gate and ready to take off at the originally appointed time. The weather in the cities it’s come from has to be clear, the weather in the city you’re heading to has to be clear, the weather in the cities your flight crew is arriving from has to be clear. Then you have to hope that everyone on your flight is cooperative, friendly and not prone to panic or poor decision-making.
A man on a recent flight from Australia to New Zealand was asked to change shirts after fellow travelers complained that the man’s shirt was “intimidating.” What did the shirt say? This:
Personally I’m shocked that the flight crew did not immediately remove the six-fingered man from the plane. He should not be allowed to travel internationally.
Yes, a part of me is sickened that this story saw the light of day. In all honesty it resulted in absolutely nothing, apart from the movie nerds of the world uniting to laugh and point at the handful of human beings who have not seen “The Princess Bride.” But what are the odds they would all be on the same plane?
Clearly, the story here is not that someone attempted to get someone kicked off a plane for wearing a novelty shirt, but that somewhere more than one person has not seen “The Princess Bride.” Not surprisingly those people also have no sense of humor.
Regarding the intimidation caused by the T-shirt, I have a message for those poor, poor intimidated souls: In the other immortal words of Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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NBC News: ‘Princess Bride’-Loving Flyer Hassled Over Inigo Montoya T-Shirt
…bi-daily smile…
