Oh Mr Swag thank you for the story prompt!

Back in the day when I was a naive FO, fairly new to CPZ, I picked up a Monterrey overnight with a LAS turn. 2 days of crib pay to help me get on that good airline life everyone imagines we live. Thought I would be done around 1400 on day 2 in lax also.

So we roll into Vegas and summer time heat is in full force and we have been gifted a plane with no APU. It was only fitting.
Board up the passengers, get the start cart connected, reference the chart to see how much PSI we need, and start cart is giving us 5psi below what we need. MXC says “no way”
For attempting a start with that low of PSI. Ops in Vegas says “that’s our last working start cart, do you have any other way to try and start it up?”.

So off with the passengers because they are literally starting to vaporize in the back of the plane now.

One hour later ops gets a cart from Swissport. Captain says let’s see how much psi it gives before we board the pax again. (Good idea I think!). Fire up the cart, it overheats and shuts down.
Gate agent comes down with two big Quiznos subs. From a passenger who overheard say our last meal was breakfast in Mexico. Wow some of them have souls! So we chow down, and ops looks for another start cart.
“2 hours later” (sponge bob narrator voice). We find one that they paid Southwest to let us borrow.
We test it out, works like a dream. Board the pax and head out to LaLa Land.
Once we arrive in LAX I return to my jetbridge from postflight walkaround to find the flight attendant arguing with a passenger who was trying to steal another passenger’s wheel chair. Her excuse was “I have a wheel chair just like this at home so I’m taking it!”
After some attempts at descalating the wheelchair thief threw her bag at the empty wheelchair and pushed the wheelchair agent. This prompted a call to police to wrap up my crib pay day.
Vegas baby!