I fly in a large Nintendo

Seriously, this is true. I'm not even talking about a really cool Wii or even a Super Nintendo. I'm talking about the old school gray-box nintendo with the the two bottons: reset and power. Let me clarify... I was on a DC to Fort Lauderdale trip recently. We boarded all the passengers, did a flawless performance of the safety features with a perfect seat belt demonstration any flight attendant would be proud of. Surprisingly no one clapped at said performance...or even woke up, but I'm side tracking now. Anyway, back to the story... Passengers loaded, demo done, count finished and called the Captain to let him know that we flight attendants had secured the safety of every individual and we were ready for takeoff. (It's mostly summed up by saying "Ready for Takeoff" but this is a story so dramatic effect added for your pleasure)...

The captain then says he's going to open the door and talk to me. Feeling super important as the "A" flight attendant I wait for the cockpit door to open. He proceeds to tell me we were going to have a 30 minute or so delay because when they started the engines the computers did not load properly. I asked him how this was fixed and he stated that they simply turn the plane off and turn it back on. Really?? Like a computer or nintendo I ask? Exactly the captain tells me. He then goes on to say that sometimes not all the systems "boot" right sort of like when you used to turn on your Nintendo and you would get the fuzzy line in the middle of your screen and Mario would have a really long distorted torso half way down the screen. So how did we fix this children of the 80's? Turn it off, take out the cartridge, blow into the cartridge, blow into Nintendo slot and turn back on. Luckily, nothing in the cockpit had to be taken out and blown on (wow-that sentence was filled with un-intentional naughty puns;). However I watched as the captain turned off the plane, restarted the plane and literally said "Yessss! the way a guy would if his football team scored a touchdown; as every system restarted correctly on his screen. I asked if this was just our planes and he said, no, all planes do this from time to time. So next time you're in a plane, remember, It's a Nintendo. Hope that the captain knows the secret cheats like up,up,down, down,left, right, left, right, B, A, Start. Or that he will just turn it off, blow on the dash and restart. Happy flying!