Hate to inform the lounge that Shena's ugly sister almost made an appearence this morning on my MSP-SLC flight. We had a very minor mechanical (captain said it would take 5 minutes and it did). GA stops boarding of the flight and tries to get me to come off swearing I'm going to misconnect and she's putting me on the nonstop to DFW instead (on a CRJ-900 with no seats left in F). I told her I'd only deplane if I could go via ATL - she says it's sold out, EF shows plenty o' seats. I tell her I'm just going to take my chances...looks like I'm right as we're due into SLC only 5 minutes late.