Unbelievable!

[oldxfr8dog]

Flew all night and there is an honest-to-God Harley ride organized in the parking lot 50 yards from my hotel window. Scores of bikes trying to out-rev each other!
If I put my ear plugs in, I'll never hear the alarm! Besides, you can actually FEEL the vibation.

 

[jetexas]

Pretty rude considering its New years Day with lots of hungover folks around!

 

[willard]

[Flew all night and there is an honest-to-God Harley ride organized in the parking lot 50 yards from my hotel window. Scores of bikes trying to out-rev each other!
If I put my ear plugs in, I'll never hear the alarm! Besides, you can actually FEEL the vibation]

...**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**

 

[Rhoid]

Sounds like you should call your company and TELL them YOU are getting a new hotel and YOU will CALL them when you are rested.

 

[WhiteCloud]

Flew all night and there is an honest-to-God Harley ride organized in the parking lot 50 yards from my hotel window. Scores of bikes trying to out-rev each other!

Figure out their room numbers and request 5AM wake up calls.

 

[FN FAL]

Flew all night and there is an honest-to-God Harley ride organized in the parking lot 50 yards from my hotel window. Scores of bikes trying to out-rev each other!
If I put my ear plugs in, I'll never hear the alarm! Besides, you can actually FEEL the vibation.

I can empathize with you. The place where I layover at is a mecca for snowmobilers. This place gets as much snow as Buffalo NY...in fact the biggest joke about this town is that summer is worst three months of ice fishing season.

On thursday as I was making my way to lunch, a bunch of them were coming in off the trails because it was raining. Bew Hew.

Lots of times they leave them things running in the back parking lot and the heater winds up bringing the exhaust fumes into the room.

 

[Diesel]

Your layover must be in PQI or someplace in maine. It's been raining here all week. Got a new polaris but can't even use it.

God i love the smell of the new synthetic oil.

 

[freaky]

Just because the last snow is in late May and the first snow is in early September doesn't mean you can make fun of PQI. I know you Colgan pilots get paid crap but the bartender at the PQI INN likes all pilots and if you are nice she will knock a few drinks off. I was a CFI and a fire patrol pilot up there, if you find yourself a nice plump girl you will be warm year round and won't notice the snow machines out back.

 

[zonker]

Remember in "Smokey and the Bandit", when all of those bikers beat up Jerry Reed in the bar and then he got in his truck and ran over their bikes?

Yea.... good times.

You should try something like that.

 

[FN FAL]

Remember in "Smokey and the Bandit", when all of those bikers beat up Jerry Reed in the bar and then he got in his truck and ran over their bikes?

Yea.... good times.

You should try something like that.

About two months ago, I almost got a chance to do exactly that...with the riders still on the Harley.

Fortunately for them, I didn't want to risk having to defend myself in court on a manslaughter charge...so I let them go. But it was fun pushing the rider's buttons to the max, during the 5 minute road rage ordeal.

 

[SWA GUY]

Just a word of advice....

If on the back of their jackets it reads "Banditos" or "Ching-a-Lings", go the other way. In fact, run Forest run!

 

[BFC Lone Wolf]

Some people are rude. It is not the motorcycle choosing to disrupt your REM. How many sleepless nights are there on 4JUL?

 

[CCDiscoB]

If I put my ear plugs in, I'll never hear the alarm!

I often sleep with ear plugs in and I can hear the alarm. Try it.

 

[ex208driver]

A lot of the chapters had a hung-over ride on the 1st. My group did one at 9 am. It was a blast. Most bikers live close by to where they are riding, so much for the 5 am wake-up. You have to adjust, I fly all over the place and in MHT, we stay close to a harley dealership in town. Just remember LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES. Also food for thought, most of the hard core bikers dont wear their jackets proclaiming who they ride for, unless they are in a big group. And surprisingly they look just like anyone else you might sit next to.

 

[oldxfr8dog]

Remember in "Smokey and the Bandit", when all of those bikers beat up Jerry Reed in the bar and then he got in his truck and ran over their bikes?

Yea.... good times.

You should try something like that.

I was thinking more along the lines of piano wire stretched between two telephone poles, about four feet off the ground.

 

[hellas]

Got one better.

Long overnite in HGR and a Black Swingers Convention was going on, with 2 sets of ajoining rooms playing 24hr. porn for all to come in and out and watch INCLUDING THIER KIDS THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM!!!!!!! The pool was like turkish bath, and the managment chased everyone out of the pool. Ohh.. the sites and sounds....It was vile!!! I locked my door and felt like the family in Sodom and Gamora..I'm going to my happy place now...

(Sorry if I offended the Swingers..)

 

[ivauir]

I was thinking more along the lines of piano wire stretched between two telephone poles, about four feet off the ground.

I know that this is a feeble attempt at a joke, but YGTBSM. You don't like somebody's attitutde, mode of transportatation or tattoo - you make a crack about KILLING them. Moderator please remove this post.

 

[oldxfr8dog]

I know that this is a feeble attempt at a joke, but YGTBSM. You don't like somebody's attitutde, mode of transportatation or tattoo - you make a crack about KILLING them. Moderator please remove this post.

No, YGTBSM. (And by the way, a joke is a form of "YGTBSM).
I said NOTHING about their attitude, transportation, or tatoos. I SAID I had been up all night.
I was assigned a reduced rest of 9 hours and 35 minutes. That's block-in +15 minutes to show time. Subtract approx an hour and a half transport time, get undressed, put on my feet-in-the-bottom PJs, get up, shower, etc... time, and I had about 6 and a half hours in bed. Two hours into that, I was awakened by juvenile displays of "my pipes are louder than your pipes" demos and 100 yard parking lot dashes by a hundred or so bikers.
Maybe I'm not as "sensitive" as you. Maybe I'm not as "enlightened" or "evolved as you. However, I'm **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** glad I'm not as sanctimonious as you, when someone makes a JOKE...

 

[Resume Writer]

When I was flying, we would stay at a hotel in PHL which was somewhere near the football stadium. After flying all night, getting in on Sunday morning, I would just start to drift off and the tailgate parties would start in the parking lot, complete with loud music, yelling, etc. Even ear plugs were not any help. The airline finally moved us from that hotel.

The other fun hotel was the one that sat at the end of the heavy runway at JFK. All night long, every few minutes, an airplane would roar overhead coming in for landing. One of the FAs got the phone number of the guy that was the head of crew hotels. At about 3 am, he called the guy and timed it perfectly with a large aircraft landing. He opened up his window, held the receiver outside as this airplane was going overhead, and said, "See what we have to listen to all night!!"

It was not long after that we were moved from that hotel.

Kathy

 

[Sy-bill]

No, YGTBSM. (And by the way, a joke is a form of "YGTBSM).
I said NOTHING about their attitude, transportation, or tatoos. I SAID I had been up all night.
I was assigned a reduced rest of 9 hours and 35 minutes. That's block-in +15 minutes to show time. Subtract approx an hour and a half transport time, get undressed, put on my feet-in-the-bottom PJs, get up, shower, etc... time, and I had about 6 and a half hours in bed. Two hours into that, I was awakened by juvenile displays of "my pipes are louder than your pipes" demos and 100 yard parking lot dashes by a hundred or so bikers.
Maybe I'm not as "sensitive" as you. Maybe I'm not as "enlightened" or "evolved as you. However, I'm **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** glad I'm not as sanctimonious as you, when someone makes a JOKE...

Why didn't you call in fatigued?