There's snow business
Does anyone remember a couple of years back (just before Christmas 2010 I think), when it snowed heavily in the U.K. and shut down all the airports? I was stuck in Newark, N.J. at the time, with a good friend and colleague of mine, having finished some work in San Francisco. We'd got as far as Newark and were told that all planes to London were cancelled, so holed up in a hotel near the airport.

Flights were being cancelled all the time and we'd spent long enough at the hotel to become like Alan Partridge ('the usual', for breakfast, lunch and tea), when we met a bunch of English middle-aged couples in the same situation as us.

They were typical flashing the cash types - they'd spent a fortune on a their two weeks in America etc. and they spent the whole time we knew them complaining about everything: coffees, the view ffs, 'America is s**t' and so on. The ignorance comes in from them getting more and more irate about the situation - there was nothing anybody could do, but these people were making it all worse and it was getting embarrassing for us.

In the end, as we were planning to spend Christmas in Florida, they got so hacked off that they booked first class tickets back on the next available flight - which went via Toronto and then on to a European destination.

My mate and I sat it out, got a flight back Christmas Eve and reflected on perhaps a little balance restored in the universe because if they'd waited a little longer (a day or two), they would have got back to blighty at no extra cost (save the hotel, which was cheap - bolt your doors at night cheap), rather than the several thousands extra it cost them.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 15:39, 15 replies)

that's kinda like Home Alone...
...mixed with Planes, Trains and Automobiles,

and a bit of Uncle Buck thrown in for good measure.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 16:13, closed)

You are absolutely spot on.
It started the moment we left Heathrow and my mate lost his lucky hat. We thought they'd put us in first class, only to find out there had been a mixup (we weren't even booked in first class, but they insisted until it got sorted out). The air stewards felt bad and made up for it by plying us with free booze the entire journey. We lost our luggage, got picked up by a bunch of rich middle-aged women ('creditcard's behind the bar lads') and got into a fight with a guy who looked like Action Man (and when the anger diffused he gave us a tour of his favourite restaurants). Throughout the trip I had Chris Rea's 'Driving Home for Christmas' in my head.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 17:06, closed)

And then some terrorists took over the airport, and I had to defeat them before I could get home to my daughter
Yipee iy-ay, motherfucker.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 17:23, closed)

if there was at any point jamie lee curtis' breasts
then you could also throw in 'trading places' to that list.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:09, closed)

Unfortunately not.
They were nice (paying for the booze), but the wrong side of slightly ropey.

The strangest bit was the bloke who came along and was an ex of one of the women. He sat there sipping Coca Cola and scowling at everyone else - as she was putting it about up and down the bar. She said they'd split up ages ago and he just wouldn't get the message, but it could have been that they were a couple and just got off on her messing around while he watched.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:16, closed)

well either way
I think this all contains the majority of a movie script.
It's not quite a re-make as a medley of movies.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:29, closed)

So do you think it can be sold to Hollywood?

(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:31, closed)

seen a lot worse,
i'm also assuming I've seen a lot better, but it's all swings and round abouts...

there's ya film title.

Shall I just sit back and await my cheque?

no?

oh, ok...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:12, closed)

It's alright, it's in the post.
I like the title - it can be a low budget Brit-flick starring a couple of blokes off the street and that woman who used to be in Eastenders.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:36, closed)

well then
this script seems to be writing itself.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 14:05, closed)

That's right,
I think we sit back and watch the money roll in...
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 14:46, closed)

You don't actually know what "ignorant" means, do you?
On the irony scale, I'd give that Alanis out of ten.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 20:49, closed)

Nicely done there.
They were lacking knowledge or awareness in general - everybody else seemed to be aware that it was a difficult situation and got on with it. Maybe I should have been more explicit about this - I forgot to include the asberger's coefficient.

Claps for the Alanis comment though.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 0:40, closed)

I remember that well, I was stuck in San Francisco for a few days
I loved it - it was much better than England, I'd found a Mexican restaurant that was going to be open on Christmas Day, and a really cool bar... I was sorted :D
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 23:41, closed)

It's a wonderful city
and you definitely made the right choice!
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 0:42, closed)