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Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by JayhawkCO - Today at 10:34:45 AM

I was connecting at Hobby Airport yesterday and at the gate next to where I was boarding for my onward flight back home, I overheard this:

Southwest Airlines gate agent (calmly): "Good Evening sir, what airport are you flying to tonight?"
Southwest Airlines Passenger (upset):  "I'm going to California ma'am."
Southwest Airlines gate agent (still calm):  "Okay, do you know which airport?"
Southwest Airlines passenger (irate):  "I just told you, California!"
Southwest Airlines gate agent (still calmly): "I understand sir, but which airport exactly?"
Southwest Airlines passenger (angrily):  "What part of 'California' do you not understand ma'am?!"
Southwest Airlines gate agent (still calm):  "There are a lot of airports in California, I just need to know which one."
Southwest Airlines passenger (blows fuse):  "I need to speak to your manager, NOW!!!"

I felt really terrible; it seems that airline agents are kicked in the head way more than any other customer service profession.  I wish airlines would provide trauma assistance every week for their employees.

Campbeltown Airport in Scotland it is then. (IATA code: CAL)

At least you'd be able to drink some Springbank.

#2

Off-Topic / Re: How do you define the Midw...

Last post by JayhawkCO - Today at 10:33:14 AM

I would bet it's a line marking 40 miles away from West Virginia or less.

#3

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Kentucky

Last post by seicer - Today at 10:24:51 AM

New Google Map aerials for the Richwood Road interchange project are now available here. I wasn't aware they had built an interchange at US 25. Interestingly, there is a very wide overpass for CSX's CC line, which was recently downgraded and single-tracked for most of its length. I wonder if they are planning for a small yard or passing track here, but given that this line isn't growing - perhaps it's for wishful thinking?

#4

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: New US 51 - Cairo Bridge

Last post by seicer - Today at 10:16:25 AM

If anyone is interested, I have a writeup and photo gallery of Cairo at my site, Abandoned: https://abandonedonline.net/location/cairo/

#5

Traffic Control / Re: FADED Beyond Recognition

Last post by formulanone - Today at 10:09:04 AM

Almost all of the shields on Tennessee Truck 7 in Ardmore look like this:

#6

Mountain West / Re: I-40/US 93 West Kingman In...

Last post by triplemultiplex - Today at 10:07:22 AM

"Character" in this context sounds to me like impatient morons pulling into freeway-speed traffic and surprising long distance drivers not used to seeing cross traffic for the last hour.

<activate collision avoidance algorithm>

#7

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: New US 51 - Cairo Bridge

Last post by triplemultiplex - Today at 09:59:09 AM

On the other hand, there are plenty of barge terminals along the rivers that are not right in towns already, so it's not like those facilities are dependent on there being a community right there.

As long as someone is willing to keep paying for upkeep of levees, might as well let "Cay-ro" die a natural death rather than ruffle feathers by having the government put it out of its misery.  Some future flood will do that for you if you wait long enough. 

#8

Off-Topic / Re: Most irritating emoji

Last post by seicer - Today at 09:51:48 AM

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#9

Off-Topic / Re: How do you define the Midw...

Last post by SEWIGuy - Today at 09:43:17 AM

As always, it's more about how people from a certain place define themselves than outside opinions.

I would love to see how Ohio breaks down. My guess is there is a line, roughly along the I-77 corridor, that separates the Ohioans who think they are in the east from the Ohioans who think they are in the midwest.

#10

Off-Topic / Re: How do you define the Midw...

Last post by jlam - Today at 09:38:51 AM

Maybe the people in CO, ID, MT, and WY were a little confused. They are in the middle of the west, after all (but most certainly not in the midwest).

The Tennesseans, however, are trolling.