Originally Posted by
JungleBus
In a year I've flown with one guy who yelled at rampers, berated gate agents & F/As, argued with ATC over runway assignments, and refused to start the second engine until exactly 2:00 before takeoff (on an 88) despite having a new FO struggling to get all the checklists done in that time. He's pretty much the only guy I've flown with who just failed at life, everyone else has been pretty fantastic (ok, there was the one 9/11 truther, but he was at least a nice guy).
Yeah, there's a few of those guys out there but I consider them the 5%'ers. At Delta, I'll bet it's less the 5%. Generally fantastic people.
And I've actually grown to enjoy flying with that 9/11 truther. Yes, he's probably nuts, but he is a nice guy and actually kind of interesting to listen to.