Gumballs on a Plane

I love sharing funny travel stories with people and I don't think anyone has better stories than my uncle. I have already shared a few stories from my uncle's experience with traveling but he recently shared with me a story that I think takes the cake! He was flying home on a Delta flight from Detroit to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He was sitting in his seat waiting for the plane to push back from the gate when a family traveling with a small boy sat in the row behind them. The boy had an unopened bag of gumballs and repeatedly asked his mother if he could have one. The mother consistently denied him and told him to put them away. As the aircraft turned onto the runway to takeoff the mother told the boy he could open the package and take a gumball. Upon trying to open the bag, the package exploded and gumballs went flying against the overhead compartments and throughout the cabin. My uncle had gumballs running down his shirt and the rest were rolling to the back of the cabin as the aircraft barreled down the runway. The flight attendant notified the captain that they needed to abort the takeoff. As the aircraft quickly slowed down all of the gumballs rolled under the seats to the front of the plane.

The aircraft taxied to a holding tarmac where it parked for about twenty five minutes. The flight attendants asked all of the passengers to help pick up all of the gumballs on the ground. The flight attendants were finding gumballs in the rails that hold the seats to the floor. As my uncle was crawling on the floor picking up gumballs he said to the flight attendant "I bet the captain was pretty pissed about this." Unbeknownst to him, the captain was standing right behind him also picking up gum balls and replied, "You bet he was!"