Comments on: United sucks (No. 162,376,201 in a series)

By: Larry T.

Larry T. — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:56:52 +0000

Airlines. Can’t get to Italy without ‘em but they screw you over seemingly at will. This is the most frustrating part of our biz, having ZERO control over our client’s experience getting to and from one of our tours. No matter how great the experience of riding and eating in Italy may be, the airline jerks can either have a client arrive pissed off, or get home feeling that way. None of that helps us but what can you do? They’re pretty much all the same these days.

By: khal spencer

khal spencer — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:21:58 +0000

And speaking of that old Monty Python line from Holy Grail” he doesn’t have shit all over him”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/sports/cycling/agency-details-doping-case-against-lance-armstrong.html?hp

By: khal spencer

khal spencer — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:28:55 +0000

Next time United pulls this crap, they should put her up for a weekend at the New Otani Hotel. Ocean view.

The Gagnon story is amazing. While most of the country is looking for one or another magic bullets to cure them of far less serious health care situations, this guy is out there well past the ragged edge, putting his heart and soul where his mouth is. Allez, Ernest!

By: md anderson

md anderson — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:16:12 +0000

I think those “feel-good” moments are a lot more common than we want to believe. The vast majority of folks really are nice people, and it shouldn’t surprise us that they generally behave in a kind and supportive way of their fellow man/woman. Have we become such a nation of cynics that acts of kindness surprise us? The airwaves, blog-o-sphere, and letters to the editor pages have become such concentrations of invective that it colors our perception of the world.

OTOH perfectly nice people can believe crazy shit.

By: Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:36:55 +0000

Heart-warming story, eh, Bruce? I think VeloNews.com ran something on this a while back; I know I saw it somewhere else.

Funny how we fret over the “need” to lose a pound here, or five pounds there, or wouldn’t it be swell to max out the Amex card and buy a 16-pound carbon wonderbike to take 10 seconds off your Strava KOM?

And then you stumble across a guy determined to rid himself of a few hundred pounds the hard way, and in the process meet some other folks — leg-shavers, mind you — who are lining up not to mock, but to support.

The world could do with a few more such moments, eh?

By: Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:19:48 +0000

I don’t know what happened here, P. That 11 a.m. flight was never canceled, it just vanished, like the federal surplus. And both Herself and I were assured that she was booked on it. Maybe it went to Shangri-La, Area 51, or wherever Amelia Earhart is hanging out these days.

By: BruceM

BruceM — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Patrick,
While you’re missing your better half, check this out: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162586325/instead-of-surgery-man-pedals-off-the-pounds

Bruce

By: P. Morrissey

P. Morrissey — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:31:12 +0000

That used to happen to me all the time on Delta. Panama City to Atlanta late on Friday afternoons during hurricane season. If they didn’t have enough people on one of two adjacent flights, they would cancel one and combine them. They would always blame it on a mechanical mishap.