Terry Prone: Lawnmower Man was the hero we needed in the departure lounge

When Lawnmower Man told us that the plane had now landed and was being cleaned up, that won him an ironic cheer

Facing weather delays, a JetBlue staff member managed to work the lounge full of passengers so well that their humour improved.

The guy behind me took a call from his teenage son. Decent privacy and respect on my part would cause me to stuff my fingers in my ears to prevent me from hearing the conversation.

I might even have done that if the conversation was boring, but it wasn’t. The son was consulting his dad about providing, for money, a lawn mowing service for a neighbour. His father mildly reminded him that concentrating on his schoolwork might be a worthwhile alternative priority, but didn’t push that. Instead, he did a neat cost/benefit tutorial.