I got stuck on the tarmac while they tried to sort out a fuel problem and we were all huffing jet fumes for half an hour. I thought I was going to puke by the end. I really should have asked for a refund on that flight. I blame the loss of brain cells.

When they start a jet engine, the fuel before it ignites would just blow out the exhaust. They catch it in a reservoir and pump it back into the engine to burn it off.

Well, that pump was glitching out, in some way they thought they could fix without a wrench. After about five minutes the fumes started getting sucked into the cabin, and every five minutes after they would tell us they were still working on it. What a shitshow.