Originally Posted by gringo

I did.

"Why did you fatigue out on a deadhead?"

"Because the company put me on a schitty middle row seat on a schitty Chinese carrier for a mind-numbing 17 hours in a ratty beat up A340. My back is killing me, my @ss hurts from the crappy seat and I've got the runs from whatever it was they fed me on that God-awful flight."

"Ok, thanks!"

And that was the end of that.