Thread: Enjoyable/Aggravating Travel Note of the Week - Cris Carter rocks!

Something else from MMQB this week, concerning Cris Carter:

Enjoyable/Aggravating Travel Note of the Week
The military-in-first-class stories are sprouting, thankfully.

Cris Carter, my HBO compatriot, on his Travel Story of the Year:

"I'm flying from Atlanta to Nashville the other day for a business meeting for a security company I have. You see military people all over the airport, thousands of military people traveling. They're all in their camouflage. I get on the plane with my brother John. We're sitting in first-class. The guy across from me, I hear him talking to the flight attendant and all of a sudden he grabs his stuff and goes to the back of the plane.

I hear him saying he's giving up his seat to someone in the military. I told my brother, 'Get up, we're going to the back.' We go to the back, sit down, give up our seats, and one by one, everyone in first-class started giving up their seats. It wasn't a big plane. Then the pilot got on and said, 'Thanks to the generosity of the patrons in first-class, some of our military personnel will be in first-class today. Glad to have you. Thanks for what you do.'

It was an emotional moment, a small thing I would have never thought of. It was nice. How easy you can make someone's holiday trip home a little more pleasant.'

=Z=

If Ultra was there he would have asked to sit on his lap instead.

That was actually one of the coolest things I have read in quite a while.

Rock on, Cris!
I hope more fat cats follow his example!

"Del" wrote:

If Ultra was there he would have asked to sit on his lap instead.

LMAO!

Cris is definately a classy guy. Other athletes should definately follow his example.

"Del" wrote:

If Ultra was there he would have asked to sit on his lap instead.

Yeah, Ultra would have gotten a rise out of that..

Seriously though, that was a very nice gesture on the part of all those people in first class.. We need more people like that in the world we live in today..