Overnitefr8

Got this in an email: Don't know if it really is true or not.


A WOMAN was flying from Seattle to San Francisco . Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.

Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind The man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.

He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, 'Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and s tretch your legs?' The blind lady replied, 'No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs.'

Picture this:

All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog!

The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!

True story... Have a great day and remember...

hotelmode

Haha that would be quite funny to see

socal swede

I remember hearing a story of a captain that used to have a blind mans stick and walk up the isle from the back stairway of his 727 to the cockpit just to screw with people.

emb145captain

My father had a very similar story to this.

He was a Captain at Western Airlines so the details are a bit different. Not sure if this story is an off-shoot of my Dad's story or not.

It was at LAX and he was on the DC10 at the time. Probably late 70's or early 80's.

He noticed a blind lady in first class with her dog. He, being the dog lover that he is, began chatting up the lady, and notified her it would be a long flight and he could take the dog outside to do his business before takeoff. She gladly accepted and he recalls that as he walked back down the stairs to the ramp on that sunny day, he got a lot of strange looks from the remaining passengers that were now boarding.

The dog did his business, and my Dad brought the dog back and told the event to the lady and she laughed and got a real kick out of it.

rotorhead1026

Sorry, but this story has been circulating for at least forty years (i. e., since I started flying). The airline and airport change, but the basic plot remains the same. I doubt there's any way to verify it now. If the Western captain above did what he said (and I have no reason to doubt the tale) he likely had already heard the yarn and was emulating it.

USMCFLYR

Nowadays - someone would sue over the emotional distress cause by being made to believe their airline Captain was blind!
There are no good pranks anymore. Everyone is looking to be offended by something.

USMCFLYR

(Yes - I am jaded this morning )

N9373M

I am offended by your distress.

Left Handed

I have a pair of the fake coke bottle glasses, and often I get on the airplane and introduce myself to the coffee machine or a pax instead of the lead FA. It gets a good laugh out of the peeps (once they know it's not real). I also have a book that I'd taped in big letters "learning to fly for dummies" that I used to leave in the window when I was a captain in a previous life. Yes, I'm waiting to do a carpet dance for it, but haven't yet.