gomer's story in the Burger King thread about sharing a burger with his taxi driver makes me remember a nice memory from several years ago..

Back in the days when US Air had a nonstop from BWI, we got bumped, involuntarily. We were able to get to SJU on another carrier, then supposed to get to SXM on AA about 10:00 PM that night. They had some mechanical problems, and we ended up not landing in SXM until around midnight. As we approached SXM, the plane did a pass over the runway, certainly a somewhat odd thing at that time of night. We were seated in the rear of the plane and heard one of the stewardesses tell another stewardess, "the captain is doing a fly around to make sure that there are no planes on the runway, as the control tower people have gone home!!!" <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Shocked.gif" alt="" /> All the rental car people had left for the night, and all the taxis too, and the baggage people. This was a BIG plane, 757 or so, not AE. Finally, they called some taxis back to the airport, and we were finally able to snag one.

We were tired and still a little mad from being bumped, but happy to actually have still arrived the same day, even sans luggage. Our taxi driver asked if we minded going through the drive through at the KFC in Cole Bay. We laughed and said "whatever".. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> He and his brother, who had come along for the ride, chowed down on chicken and biscuits on the long ride over to the French side.

We finally arrived at LaPlantation on the french side about 1 A.M. Of course, there was no one in the office at that hour. Our taxi driver picked up the emergency phone for us and talked to the manager in French, a feat we would have never been able to accomplish! We had called Jim Ruos from SJU and asked him if he could let Plantation know that we might not be arriving that day, or that we might be late. The driver waited with us for several minutes while the manager came and let us in. When the manager arrived, he said "Oh yes, Jimmy called me, glad you were able to arrive today!!"

So, every time we pass that KFC in Cole Bay, I think about the kindness of the taxi driver that night, and of the manager of LaPlantation, and I have to smile, thinking about the good people of SXM...

What's your story??