.....Last Saturday AM, Mary and I took the 0620 flight from ATL to EWR for the Newark Airliner show. This flight in itself would not be very interesting to report had it not been for a couple of interesting incidents! The usual mundane service with one shot of coffee and nothing else. The aircraft was about 1/3 full, we initially were in 29B 29C, but a couple of minutes before our pushback at about 0630, we moved back to 30D 30F with a seat between us. A young guy about 25 or so in 30 A had the row to himself as well and a converstation started, he had left DEN on the red-eye and was enroute to STT (evidently a CO codeshare EWR-STT where he and some friends had the use of a house for a week. After we got up in the air, he got Vodka Screwdriver from the F/A, and as far as I could tell, he gave her a $10.00 bill, and told the F/A to keep the change! And she did! Soon after that, he stretched himself out over the three seats (or more accurately, passed out (his arm was hanging down limp). The captain came on about over BWI and told us that because of deteriorating weather conditions at EWR, we would have to circle for 15-20 minutes, which we did, this guy across from us never woke up. Then the captain came on again, said that both EWR and LGA were closed and it would be necessary to circle some more. Finally we were cleared for landing (we found out later, there were tornado warnings in the area). and this kid didn't wake up. Soon after the chimes went off for preperation for landing one of the F/A's came and tried to rouse the kid, which she could not do. She then attempted to put his seatbelt around him which she had no luck in doing also. We ended going through some light chop in descent, and landed, this guy was still passed out! We deplaned, the kid never woke up as we gathered our carryons and hurried to the show! I wonder if it is common practice for DL F/A's to accept tips and not require pax seatbelts to be fastened. Sounds like a global dominate airline like Aeroflot! Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA EWR -Newark, NJ STT -Saint Thomas Virgin Island LGA -LaGuardia NY (for Ray) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com