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by defrost 901 days ago
> but surely he knows that he can’t manage the infotainment system as a passenger.

If he's spent a lot of time in Jamaica he may have a "well somebody needs to fix this" attitude - which can also come from having a military background.

I live in a large state (3x size of Texas) with a small population (bit over 2 million) and people here pitch in in to fix stuff fairly often (bridges out, floods, fires, push trains aside to free trapped legs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORxs9E2Ex0

What's missing here is the nature of the interaction, was it amiable, why did Delta staff circle round on him when he started writing a complaint, why was he complaining in any case (was it because his help was refused, or because he was complaining it was broken).

EDIT: In my earlier comment s/ASAF/USAF/ <doh>