Growing up in New Jersey, I learned that when a stranger sitting on the bar stool beside you asks, "How ya doin?" the last thing the stranger wants to hear is how you're doin'. Moving quickly past the obvious question -- Why did I hang around bars as a kid? Because they had good bowling alleys -- I should not have been surprised with the responses we received from the Brainteaser #178 survey question: "What is the dumbest thing you've encountered in aviation?"It was more than a loaded question. It was a license to vent, and to shake indignant fists at the walls of civility that keep us separated from the beasts inside various institutions and practices. In short, there are some unresolved issues in the aviation community, and it's time to get those grievances out of the hangar for all to see.As with all Brainteaser surveys, the submitters' true identities are scrubbed from the record.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/dumbfounded