Comments on: Why Long-Distance? http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/why-long-distance/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:07:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/why-long-distance/#comment-1359 KF Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:03:22 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=614#comment-1359 <p>Well....  I was going to be all super-secret, but what the heck.  It was United.  Who won back a small (very small (in fact, very, very small)) piece of my heart tonight.  First, by getting me home fifteen minutes early.  Second, and more importantly, by having a busted in-flight entertainment system on the DC-to-Denver leg, such that the flight attendants instead felt obligated to keep me amused by BUYING ME BEERS. </p> <p> I’m still never flying United again, not if I can help it.  But I want to hire those two guys should I ever wind up with my own personal plane. </p> Well….  I was going to be all super-secret, but what the heck.  It was United.  Who won back a small (very small (in fact, very, very small)) piece of my heart tonight.  First, by getting me home fifteen minutes early.  Second, and more importantly, by having a busted in-flight entertainment system on the DC-to-Denver leg, such that the flight attendants instead felt obligated to keep me amused by BUYING ME BEERS.

I’m still never flying United again, not if I can help it.  But I want to hire those two guys should I ever wind up with my own personal plane.

]]> By: meg http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/why-long-distance/#comment-1358 meg Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:15:33 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=614#comment-1358 <p>Don’t keep us on tenterhooks—what’s the airline? </p> Don’t keep us on tenterhooks—what’s the airline?

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