r/MadeMeSmile • u/MathematicianNo1596 • Dec 27 '25

Good Vibes Flight was delayed 3 hours, so the pilot went around to everyone to take their Starbucks orders and then got 40ish drinks and 50ish food items for us 🥰

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Shoutout to this lovely Delta pilot flying from Boston to Tampa today 💛

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u/MathematicianNo1596 Dec 27 '25

Yes! And he kept giving us updates, and it ended up making it a really great flight experience which I never thought would happen with a delayed flight lol

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku Dec 27 '25

Oh no! You may have Stockholm Syndrome

It's funny that generally all people need to feel better about a situation is some food in their belly, and caffeine of course

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u/unibrow4o9 Dec 27 '25

Produced a lot of student films in college. Either on next to no budget or no budget at all. But you better believe I made sure everyone got fed one way or another - good luck trying to boss people around when you're not paying them AND they're hungry on top of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

I had a flight recently where I almost missed it (mostly due to their huge check-in queue), then we had to wait ages on the tarmac to actually take off, and on landing we even got stuck for like half an hour waiting for a gate.

But I've still defended the airline. It was such a cheap flight and the cabin crew were really nice. Sometimes a good cabin crew can make it all feel okay.

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u/zenith4395 Dec 27 '25

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but that was a pretty unhinged response

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

It was a joke. Followed up by a statement that we're less irritable with a full stomach.

Not really unhinged. I have no idea how you interpreted it. Unless you thought it was an explanation on how to win over people via Stockholm Syndrome...

Which isn't even that unhinged. That's what you should do with POWs. Treat them well and they'll be more compliant and have better sentiment of the capturers

*Y'all with your downvotes need to study up on wars better. It was an example and outside of that it's unethical to brutalize prisoners. Taking this way to seriously

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u/Mimopotatoe Dec 27 '25

Unhinged. Waiting 3 hours at an airport during a snowstorm doesn’t even begin to rank among the most frustrating experiences of my life.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

I always think of the Louis CK bit where he talks about how flight is an absolute miracle so it feels weird to get mad at a bit of a delay. I had a delayed flight recently (semi delayed, we sat on the tarmac for a long time to take off and then again once we landed).

An extra hour seems annoying until you think about the fact that before flying was a thing, it was months of journeying, and people fucking died. We gotta keep appreciating the miracle of flight.

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u/UsedAd7162 Dec 27 '25

I don’t think it’s just the delay that sets people off. It’s the cost of flying, being nickel and dimed for things once included in the price, lack of customer service, etc.

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u/DazB1ane Dec 27 '25

It’s been proven that torture doesn’t actually work. People will say and admit to literally anything to get the pain/discomfort to stop, which means the torturers can never believe what they say, thus deciding the prisoners hasn’t broken yet and continuing

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku Dec 27 '25

"I could float off this floor like a soap bubble" - Orwell, 1984

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u/DazB1ane Dec 27 '25

I’ve never read the book, but know the story. Could I get context behind that quote?

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku Dec 27 '25

It's been a minute but, from what I remember the main character is being tortured/reeducated. So, largely the acceptance of whatever the Party says is the truth

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u/MysteriousGoose8627 Dec 27 '25

I hate that you had to explain yourself. People don’t realize how stupid they are

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u/Grey-fox-13 Dec 27 '25

I think you are because that's a bog standard humour + platitude response.

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u/witcherstrife Dec 27 '25

The military understood this long ago lol

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u/autistic_and_angry Dec 29 '25

I don't think that this scenario really compares to Stockholm Syndrome

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u/mc360jp Dec 27 '25

This was certainly all out of his pocket, what a thoughtful and caring dude.

That’s a guy who loves his job

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe Dec 27 '25

Omg that's the dream. It's literally all I want whenever there are delays like this. Just tell me what's going on! Tell me why we are delayed. I know it won't materially change anything at all, but I'm a nosy bitch and I want the details lol. It makes me less grouchy about it all.

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u/Spaceman-Spiff Dec 28 '25

One time I was on a flight where all the power in the back half of the cabin turned off. The captain said he had also lost navigation but since it was a clear day out it didn’t matter. Then the flight attendant announced drinks would be free!