The 20 Stages of Flight Delay Trauma
| April 3, 2017
Despair
Might as well accept it. This plane is your new home. There is no getting out. There is no escaping. There is only stale air, and the guy’s cologne and Travel Thirst, which is somehow simultaneous with you needing to go to the bathroom (maybe Starbucks wasn’t a great idea after all). There is no hope.
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Take-Off
Just as you resign yourself to rotting here until the end of time, your pilot scoots the plane onto the runway and you take off. But you know better by now. You know it could all be a trick. So you refuse to credit the plane with any confidence until you land at your destination.
Even then, you’re not so sure you ever left the airport.
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