So, I’m back in Chicago again. This time, it’s for work-related training. And believe it or not, I’ll be back a third time around Christmas. This is truly a record for me.
Speaking of Chicago, I saw something a little disturbing at O’Hare last Monday. Thanks to typically horrid Chicago-winter weather, my flight to Seattle was delayed several hours. When we finally managed to get on the plane and got all settled to leave, we had to wait another 20 minutes for the airport folks to deice the plane. Now, I grew up in Chicago, so I’ve seen and sat through my fair share of plane deicing. Something struck me on this particular instance though. As I stared out the window to watch the deicing (yes, I’m a sucker for these sorts of things) I noticed that there was a fellow manually deicing the bottom of the wing. “That’s interesting,” I thought. “I’ve never seen them spray deicing fluid on the bottom of the wing before…”
Naturally, of course, my next thought was, “why in the hell is this the first time I’ve ever seen them manually deice the bottom of a wing?!?” If, as is apparently the case, you’re supposed to deice the top and bottom of the wing, I am really just shocked and kind of mortified that I’ve flown on planes that were only partially deiced. Even worse, since I’ve seen dozens of deicing procedures, and not once have I ever seen them deice the bottom of the wing, it was apparently standard procedure at one point to incorrectly deice planes. It’s not like deicing a plane is some evolving science where the more we experiment the more we learn — you should either deice the whole bloody thing or not, right!? I’d really, really like to believe there is a perfectly rational and justifiable explanation for all of this but… well, that’d just be too rational.
Happy flying!
I think your alleged reasons for all your recent trips to Chicago are just a front to cover up the real purpose for your visits–to try to buy yourself a U.S. Senate seat.
That’s like, your opinion, man. I’ve got nothing but sunshine on me!