061127 - 6 Hours for 1 screw...

061127 - I find myself over the Atlantic this morning headed to London. I missed my direct flight to Amsterdam because when in Columbus someone notice a screw was loose in the threshold of the plane that houses the escape slide. Aparently this was an esy fix, but required the call in a maintenance man to tighten it... On hour later the guy shows up, 30 second later the screw is tightened, but it could only be done by an aircraft mechanic, got to love the Unions..... Anyway I am now in London's Gatwig Internationa airport, where I had to retrieve my bag, wait through 4 lines, Passport, Customs, Ticketing & Security to get on a British Airlines flight to Amsterdam. = 6 hours of my life wasted for 1 loose screw...