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  <title>Comments for American Airlines:  A Big Bucket of Suck</title>
  <subtitle>Shoppers bite back.</subtitle>
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    <title>American Airlines:  A Big Bucket of Suck</title>
    <summary>--&gt;Somehow sensing that things were not going to go well,  a Livejournaler by the name of Ovid liveblogged his travails in trying to go from JFK to the emerald isles. His travels are undercut by American Airlines&apos; inability to change a tire, which causes a chain reaction of unfortunate events not unlike a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo and causing global warming.</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p><!--<img alt="americanairpicpic.jpg" src="http://consumerist.com/images/resources/2006/06/americanairpicpic.jpg" width="150" class="right-img" height="120" />-->Somehow sensing that things were not going to go well,  a Livejournaler by the name of Ovid liveblogged his travails in trying to go from JFK to the emerald isles. His travels are undercut by American Airlines' inability to change a tire, which causes a chain reaction of unfortunate events not unlike a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo and causing global warming.</p>

<p>"It's been confirmed that I will miss my flight to Dublin, but the attendant assures me that I will be rebooked. In the meantime, we're being fed turkey sandwiches and muffins -- at five and two dollars respectively," he writes.</p>

<p>He also takes out time to mention a book he's reading, <u>We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families</u> about Rwanda's civil warm. It's a nice break from the action, provides perspective that there are more important things than getting stuck on an airplane, namely genocide.</p>

<p>Read the rest of the screed <a href="http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/194327.html">here</a>.</p>]]>
      
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