Apparently I Have a Huge Blind Spot for this Jetstream Thing

Did you guys know about this thing? Apparently it shaves serious time off flights coming back from the west coast? How the hell did I miss this? 

While casually discussing a friends flight plans at a bar on Friday I discovered this HUGE blind spot in my knowledge. I didn't know about the jetstream...I mean I guess subconsiously I did. I know that weather almost always comes from the west, but I never connected the fact that the wind blows west to east with shorter flight times. I was absoltuely dumbfounded, I argued til I was blue in the face that there was now way a flight from Boston to LA was an hour longer than a flight from LA to Boston. Hell, even after reading this wikipedia page, I still didn't quite buy it. I had to go to jetblue.com and actually book a round trip flight to LA to confirm for myself...Guys, turns out its true. That jet stream makes a huge difference.  Up until that very moment I had prided myself on not having a blind spot. I knew at least a trivial amount of  knowledge about everything on earth, or so I thought. Turns out I'd been living a lie.

I never knew it. It's not like I've never flown out west, I've been to Vegas a few times, I've just never noticed or calculated the difference in departure/arrival times (being intoxicated on the return flights may have played into this). 

Plus, I can't  even tell you how many weather or earth sciences classes I took in college, and I aced them all, took the easy way out for my science requirements...Apparently they just failed to cover this phenomenon entirely, in Weather 101 and Weather 102. I have half a mind to write to the Dean and request a refund, frankly.  When you're taking classes like that, at a bare minimum you expect not to look like an idiot at a bar with your friends over some trivial knowledge. Taking two intro to weather courses should all but assure you that you'll sweep any related category on Jeopardy. Well I would have thrown up an 0-fer when it came to the continental jet stream and it does not sit well with me.

Jet Blue Passengers Stranded on Plane for 8 Hours Sunday, Without The NFL Sunday Ticket

JetBlue plane stranded on tarmac for 7 hours: MyFoxBOSTON.com

CONNECTICUT (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched an investigation into reports that JetBlue and American Airline passengers sat for hours on planes stranded at Bradley International Airport outside Hartford, Conn. Passengers on JetBlue Flight 504 said they sat on the tarmac for more than seven hours waiting for fuel, despite repeated requests from the captain for a tow to a gate. According to recordings posted on the website LIVEATC.NET, the captain of flight 504 told air traffic controllers, "I have a paraplegic on board that needs to come off. I have a diabetic on here that's got an issue... a list of things, I just got to get some help." The JetBlue pilot is also heard criticizing his own carrier for not bringing help sooner. "Look, you know, we can't seem to get any help from our own company... I apologize for this, but is there any way you can get a tug and a tow bar out here to us and get us get us towed somewhere to a gate or something. I don't care, take us anywhere," the captain said.

Wow. Freaking A' Jet Blue, huh? 8 Hours? I mean I know you've got Direct TV on there, but the programming aint that good, you don't even have the Sunday Ticket. 

I'm not even kidding, I'd rather be dead than sitting on a tarmac with a bunch of asshole strangers for 8 hours, crying babies just belting out screams, undoubtedly a smelly foreigner or two, that guy who calls out to the flight attendants every 20 minutes asking how long it's going to be...Just open the freaking doors guys, don't those inflatable slides just pop right out? I'll take my chance dodging planes and those luggage carriers, but get me the hell off the plane. 

In all seriousness though, a refund Jet Blue? That's what ya got? What in the hell makes you think any of these people are ever flying your airline again? I like you Jet Blue, I really do, but a refund, come on...How about like a refund plus a free round trip flight, you just ruined 8 hours of every one's lives, I'd say you owe them 8 hours of free flights.