The Microsoft IT Outage Is Causing Major Flight Issues. But One Guy In Philadelphia Was Trying To Enjoying It

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of chaos in the world right now because CrowdStrike - a cybersecurity firm - couldn’t get its ducks in a row when making an update for Windows programs.

There have been many consequences as a result of this, not the least of which is that more than 5,000 flights across the whole world have been grounded because…well, the technology we use to run them doesn’t work. OutKick's Mark Harris even had a flight from Houston to Ft. Lauderdale delayed a whopping six hours; prayers up for this guy.

Quite frankly, I think this is time for me to introduce my brilliant idea to use eagles to fly us across vast distances. I mean, it worked in "The Hobbit," who’s to say it couldn’t work in real life? (Ignore the part about the lack of huge eagles, we’ll find some…eventually).

Naturally, this outage has caused many people to be crammed into airports across the globe, and you can imagine more than a few are upset. The images of airport traffic right now are uncanny.

But not everyone is as upset as you might think. In fact, this one guy in Philadelphia seemed thrilled that he was stuck waiting in line with thousands of people who were going absolutely nowhere.

"(I’m) very lucky that I finally had an opportunity to get caught in this. Everyone should experience this at least one time in their life so they can have a story to share. We need to laugh about this…It’s going to be a party."

The first thing I want to question is why did he say "finally?" Has he been waiting for a moment to happen for a decent chunk of his life?

Read: Even Stanley Cup Celebrations Are Getting Hosed By IT Outage

Putting semantics aside for a second, I genuinely do want to commend this guy for trying his hardest to put a shine on a massive turd. 

Look, I get annoyed if I have to wait an extra 10 minutes in TSA, so I can only imagine how much of a sour grape I would have been if I were traveling in any airport today. But here this guy is, obviously tired from the early commute (it also looks like it's very early in the morning during this interview), and he’s putting forth a Herculean effort to make this be positive (and I’m sure he was one of the few - if not only - people doing this).

Kudos to this guy. Who’d have thought you’d find that much positivity in Philadelphia in the middle of a worldwide air traffic delay?