Those German controllers at Frankfurt Airport tend to be a short-tempered lot. They not only expect pilots to know their parking location but how to get there without any assistance. So it was with some amusement that we (PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground and a British Airways 747 (radio call Speedbird 206) after landing. Speedbird 206: "Good morning Frankfurt. Speedbird 206 clear to active." Ground: "Good Morning. Taxi to your gate." The British Airways 747 pulls onto the main taxiway and stops. Ground: "Speedbird, do you know where you are going?" Speedbird 206: "Stand by, ground. I'm looking up the gate location now." Ground (impatiently): "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?" Speedbird 206 (coolly), "Yes, in 1944. But I didn't stop." Send this story to a friend 1 Tech Support: "All right...now double-click on the File Manager icon." Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows-because of the icons.-I'm a Protestant, and I don't believe in icons." Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir. I don't believe it was meant to-" Customer: "I don't care about any 'Industry Terms'. I don't believe in icons." Tech Support: "Well...why don't you click on the 'little picture' of a file cabinet...is 'little picture' OK?" Customer: [click] Send this story to a friend 2 Los Angeles entrepreneur, Poor Innocent Guy David Morgan, 52, opened a new business called Anger Behind Closed Doors. Clients pay $10 a session to enter a padded room where they can vent their pent-up hostility by attacking a green dummy. "How many times do you want to choke someone because they really deserved it? And, of course, you can't do it?" Morgan told the Los Angeles Times. "But here you can do, say, feel what you want." After acting on their anger, clients unwind in the 15,000- square-foot facility's "thought and relaxation area," which comprises four private booths where they can listen to soothing music. Already the SLOTHS are organizing an effort to close Anger Behind closed Doors. One SLOTHS spokeswomen said, "When I yell at my husband or double-bind him, I want him to suffer. He has no right to go off to this place and vent his frustrations so he can feel good." Send this story to a friend 3
