A new listserv friend (thank you!) just sent me this flight story to add to my funny pages for the immune system, as follows:

My son and I were flying back to Arizona from Nevada on a Southwest Airlines flight. There was a storm and it was very turbulent. The pilot came on and announced that he was changing altitudes to try to avoid the turbulence. He did this twice, but it didn’t help. Finally he came on and made this announcement after telling us to buckle our safety belts and having the flight attendants check to see that we had done so:

“Attention passengers, we are climbing from 25,000 feet to 30,000 feet. We have never done this before, so uh, sit tight.” Good one! 🙂