An Upside to Delayed Flights?

While traveling over the holiday season I, like many others, experienced a lengthy flight delay.  I did, however find what may be considered an upside to such delays.  Other delayed travelers.  Weary travelers are a great source of entertainment.  The three of us were waiting for a flight form La Guardia that seemed to be delayed two minutes for every minute passed.  Leaving Shanghai three days earlier, after a six week music tour, Tony was only two relatively short flights from home in Greensboro South Carolina.  Darcy was home for the holidays from college and making a quick weekend trip to see her boyfriend in Virginia.  And delayed we were.  Because of a fierce weather storm that had passed through Philadelphia the day before, flights were delayed in and out.  Philadelphia was our connection.  The three of us sat at the bar, drank, and chatted.  But mostly we chatted.  Where we were from, what we did, where we were going, and of course the 'joy' of air travel.  Of course, it was also pointed out, as recently as just over a hundred years ago it would have taken days for Darcy to get to Virginia and months for Tony to get home from Asia.  So really it wasn't as bad as one could imagine, in particular because we were all in it together.  Even if just in passing.