yyz_atc_qq

Don't forget the legal drinking age in AB is also 18.... I know because I grew up in BC and started making road trips as soon as I hit 18

SparseFlyer

Really? I thought it was 21 since, you know, AB is essentially an extension of Texas.

PLeblond

XX: For some its a beer. For others it's how the French greet each other. Perhaps a chromosome makeup, or an album by Toto?

For the Romans, its a number.

Day XX, and AC.com still shows a March 1st departure.

PLeblond

I'm aware AB's legal drinking age, and I'm a little ashamed to admit that, although I've been to both YYT & YYJ, I have yet to set foot in Wild Rose Country, I wonder how strict AB was to that age. I know ON was very strict, and when my fellow classmates from Ontario were finally let loose in a drinking establishment, they let loose in a way that was not pretty to watch.

In QC we would go to bars at 15/16, and bet happy just to get in, so we remained cool thereby learning how to drink. By the time we hit 18, we know how to act in a bar and avoided that sudden freedom syndrome.

Now we are well off topic, so I should nudge this back toward the thread...

Looks like AC's system sync schedulers learned how to drink in Ontario....

There you go Mods...

yyznomad

I really think CBC would have fun with this one (the actual leap year issue, not the thread ). Just MHO.

PLeblond

Not my style. I give the retailer every opportunity to solve the issue. I'd only involve mainstream media in a situation that was extreme and I had exhausted all other possibilities.

I'm not anywhere close to that.

Now... I think everyone will agree I've taken all the necessary steps to correct the situation. If I get to the airport on February 29th and cannot board, then I will escalate to the highest level. If following that I still do not get any resolution, then maybe I might consider going to the media.

yyz_atc_qq

What what what..... they fixed it??? How sad. I was looking forward to the quips for high 20s or low 30s....

yyznomad

I read that as PLeblond throwing a bone and keeping the thread "on topic".

yyz_atc_qq

Phew... I was worried that AC had actually fixed something.

PLeblond

Indeed Nomad. I've learned my lesson about going off topic.

Still showing March 1st.

Hey. AC. If you're following this thread and keeping the departure date as March 1st for poops and giggles, can you switch it to April 1st tomorrow and I'll know we're all 'in' on the joke.

yyznomad

I wonder if AC is done yet with their code for the 2000 switch.
Oh wait, nevermind.

I can imagine... AC, the only airline where nobody flies them on February 29.

Correction: AC, the only airline where they fly nobody on February 29.

jc94

Speaking of Chromosomes, the human body has 23 (pairs). And I doubt it'll be fixed by then.
Today is Blackjack right? Also the LDA in Texas amongst others.

Well, it is winter so there may be unexpected things occurring. Like snow at YYZ.

PLeblond

Ahhhh 21. My game of choice at a casino. Or rather, it s better know name of Blackjack on this continent. It's the only game where I end up up more often up than down, except for that day when 11 hit at roulette at Palazzo on a one time bet. I stay away of Spanish 21 and other out there variants of the game, call me a classicist. I always spit aces even though I usually get 3s on them. I mostly double down on 10s. I like to sit on the end of the table and really enjoy the little nod I get from other players when I pass on a hard 12 cause the dealer is showing a 6, and ends up busting. Makes me feel like I belong there. Except that time then the 4 other players were Nunns with beards drinking tall boys and Vodka Redbulls. I think it was a stag more than my inebriation, but then again we were at the Cosmopolitan, so maybe not.

Regardless, Day 21 and AC.com still showing a March 1st departure.

(NB. You know it jc94 ... that one way a given...)

PLeblond

My apologies to Joseph Heller..

Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is PLeblond crazy?"

"He sure is," Doc Daneeka said.

"Can you ground him?"

"I sure can. But first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule."

"Then why doesn't he ask you to?"

"Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep trying to fly on February 29th, flying on that date after all the close calls he's had. Sure, I can ground PLeblond But first he has to ask me to."

"That's all he has to do to be grounded?"

"That's all. Let him ask me."

"And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked.

"No. Then I can't ground him."

"You mean there's a catch?"

"Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out flying on February 29th isn't really crazy."

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. PLeblond was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly on February 29th. PLeblond would be crazy to fly on February 29th and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly then. If he flew then he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Day 22 and AC.com still shows a March 1st departure.

PLeblond

Dude. Or rather 'The Dude'. Jeff Lebowski, better know in cult status as The Big Lebowski, or 'the Dude' was known to be a prolific bowler. Althought no one actually sees him bowing in the movie, they are always bowling in the same lane.

Lane 23...

Day 23, and AC.com still shows a March 1st departure.