Ted Cruz Rails at Montana Airport Employees: 'Do You Know Who I Am?'

[packman]

Reminds me of the story:



The single agent was rebooking a long line of very inconvenienced and frustrated travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk in front of all the others. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS.”

The agent replied, “I’m sorry sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these folks first, and I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.”

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that all the passengers behind him could hear, “Do you have any idea who I am?”

Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled warmly and grabbed her public address microphone. “May I have your attention please?” she began, her voice bellowing throughout the entire terminal. “We seem to have a passenger here at the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come forward to the gate.”

With the folks behind him in line now laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United agent, gritted his teeth, and spat out the words, “F… you.”

Without flinching in the least, the agent smiled politely and said, “I’m terribly sorry, sir, but I’m afraid that you’ll have to stand in line for that, too.”

Article on Cruz at the airport:


https://jezebel.com/ted-cruz-rails-at-montana-airport-employees-do-you-kno-1848686677

[niyad]

1. Thank you for the reminder of that great story.

[Solomon]

2. Thank you!! This post made my day!

[uponit7771]

3. K&R,

[keithbvadu2]

4. Who?

[hoosierspud]

5. My best friend worked for United

And they would cross-train their employees in different departments. One of his co-workers told him about an incident he witnessed while working with a gate agent. A passenger showed up seconds before the end of boarding. He found out that his seat was given to a passenger on standby. He threw a fit, and demanded that seat, so the gate agent told him to follow her on board and took him to the seat. She asked the standby passenger, "I'm sorry to bother you, but this seat was originally assigned to this man and he insisted that he sit here. Would you mind moving to a seat in First Class?" The moral of this story is to be polite to people who can help you.

[Chipper Chat]

6. What the hell was Cruz doing in Montana anyway

Is Montana now Cancun of the North?

[MineralMan]

7. "Why, yes, Sir, I know who you are."

"You are that asshole Senator from Texas. Amiright? Now, please step back to the end of the line, and I will assist you in turn."

[Initech]

8. Can we now refer to the male Karens of the world as "Teds"?

[Blue Owl]

9. "Would you like a bag of chips to go along with yourself, sir?"

[yonder]

10. Of the many good comments at the link, this is my favorite:

"Ted Cruz smiling just makes me viscerally uncomfortable. There’s just something so wrong about it. Like, what is that? What is he doing? It looks like someone told an alien or a robot to give its best approximation of human behavior. Or perhaps more realistically, it looks like this is the smile he practices in the mirror for hours on end but just can’t get to look like actual human emotion."

This pretty much sums up my thoughts on Cruise - there's something just not right with that boy. Something you can't quite put your finger on. He often reminds me of another dummy, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen's famous puppet sidekick, though perhaps even more wooden.

[CelticCrow]

11. Sorta like this?

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[yonder]

13. Yes. A lot like that. LOL.

[lagomorph777]

12. LOL!

That agent is genius.