Short Final…

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Air traffic control and a pilot observed unexpected fireworks near ATL on August 18th, prompting confusion about the occasion.
  • An unidentified individual revealed the fireworks were for their 10-year divorce anniversary.
  • This person humorously concluded that the expensive fireworks display illustrated where their divorce settlement money had gone.
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…Overheard one evening in August just west of ATL:

Tower: (To aircraft doing touch and goes alone in the pattern) …You watching the fireworks just north of here?

Piper1234: Yup … what’s the holiday on August 18th that includes fireworks?

Tower: No clue.

Unidentified: Well, I know what it is. Ten year aniversary of my diviorce.
(pause)
…And now I know where the money has gone.

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