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Old Nov 1, 2006, 9:05 pm
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tommy777
 
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Monday October 2nd on UA3, the beginning of our Honey moon. Lots of weather at ORD (it rained ALOT later that day), both us and UA1 were filled to the rim with fuel and pax, so we were pretty much the only heavies around at the time who needed lots of runway. We needed spacing between 2 crossing runways and the tower/ground was extremely busy.

After waiting at the end of the runway for around 45 minutes, they changed runways and we needed to taxi to the other end of the same runway. UA1 started to worry about the gas, so while taxiing he bugged the tower for the about 10th time: "eeeehhh Tower, United 1 here, we're getting close to needing more gas now, when do you estimate we will be able to go?" Tower replied immediately: "Tuesday"

We actually both got outta there immediately
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