Busted! Texas Coaches Orchestrate Hilarious Apology After Teen Cuts in Line at Airport
- Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:09pm by
Erica Ritz
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(Photo: CBS via the New York Daily News)
Texas teen Mac Breedlove is “just a young man who thinks [he's] smarter than [he is],” if his apology to a plane of Southwest passengers is to be believed.
The statement came in the middle of a hilarious speech Breedlove’s lacrosse coaches orchestrated, after the young man cut in line while traveling with his team.
The New York Daily News has more information:
Breedlove at first tried to keep the apology short, muttering into the mic “I’m sorry.”
But after some prodding by the flight attendant, he delivered a prepared address about his “great remorse.”
“During the boarding process I took advantage of this airline’s kindness. When some of my teammates were called to the front of the line, I was not. And yet, I cut in line,” he said.
“This is not how my coaches, teammates or parents expect me to behave,” he said earnestly.
As his fellow passengers giggled, Breedlove delivered his final salve. “I hope you will all find it in your hearts to forgive me. For I am just a young man that thinks I am smarter than I am.”
Watch the entire apology, via CBS, below:
“Enjoy your flight, and remember: fly Southwest, because they let my coach do this for me,” Mac concluded to scattered applause.
After too many horror stories of today’s youth abusing grandparents and the mentally handicapped, it’s somewhat refreshing both to see familiar rule-breaking like cutting in line, and well-intentioned, swift disciplinary action.
According to CBS, the young man’s coaches wanted to stress that Mac is a good kid, and the only reason he stumbled while reading the apology was both because it was hand-written, and because he was pretty embarrassed.
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Comments (92)
TheBurningTruth
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:07amNow if only welfare and food stamp recipients had to offer a truly remorseful apology every month about how their inability to find a job or achieve even the most minimal job tasks results in their taking our time and effort (that’s what money is after all) before they get their check. A little shame and humility would go a long way toward weeding out the lazy.
Report Post »AWAKENEDAWARE
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:42amtrue dat!
Report Post »radargeek
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:13amWhy apologize? Millions of illegals aliens ‘cut in line’ every year…
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:21amDon’t forget the Bankers and Corporations that buy our goverment to give them bailouts and other perks.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:30amINDI: And don’t forget the Democrats who buy corporations and , like Obama , then smear them over Citizens United while doling out tons of favors to their union supporters.
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:46amHow dare you talk about the democrats base like that.
Report Post »TheMajority
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:02amThat is what we used to be taught when this place was called ‘The Land of Opportunity”. I urge you not to be devisive to our population, because it is not their fault. Today, dependence is encouraged, as both parties redistributed our weath making capabilities (which is not arts and craafts, but production of goods and services) to communist nations since 1978.
The only thing that will turn around this trend of accpeted dependency, is to increase opportunity in the USA, (Trump is right) and then make it uncomfortable to be a dependent, while fixing our education system (teaching that dependency is stealing from your neighbors.–Go for your dreams instead. With increased opportunity, you can’t fail do better than the poverty dependency offers you).
Did you know we lost over 50% of our manufacturing over the last 25 years, and you really can’t make any money as a employee anymore? This is not the 80′s. The jobs are not there that can easily pay the bills. Your talking with a manufacturing expert with 3 degrees and 25 years exp, who worked non-union (but gained skill) and always struggeled to pay my bills–until I started my own business. Now, I make more money than any union worker in the world, but I would have a much harder time with this job market gaining those skills from my lower paying employers today, with tuition rise
With decreased opportunity and wages closing the gap to slave wages, it is easy to quit. Don’t blame the people, we have all bee
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:17amDon‘t you think that’s what Obama means when he says shovel ready jobs? He means to bring back the WPA and govenmt jobs digging ditches. Communists don’t give money and benifits away.
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:11pmWay to Go Coaches and Southwest. Hopefully, this young man learned a valuable lesson. If you break the rules or the laws, you will one day be held accountable for every word and deed in your life. For some it is going to be a very long day.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:14amHmmmm, is this going to be the new format for advertising? Works pretty well me thinks.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:11amHey Adam Smith, see how that is done you piece of…………….no explanations, no equivocations, just remorse. Some people get it, some do not.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:09amNicely done!!!! Thumbs up to the coaches, the SW airlines staff and the passengers for allowing this young man to receive a little piece of humble pie and to do the right thing for all. Hopefully he‘ll remember this and it’ll become something positive for him in his future, its good to see some kind of simple humility based lesson given to kids so they can realize they need to do the right thing for others and for themselves.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 3:18amAll I can say to your post is “yep, yep and yep”.
Report Post »AmericanPatriot
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 3:31amWell done!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:04amNow there’s a punishment that fits the crime. And I imagine that it’s a lesson that Mac will remember well, at the same time as being able to laugh about it.
Well done to the sensible coaches.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:56amI’m sure the young man will refer to this experience with his own children one day as he instructs them on the value of good manners.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:48amHilarious? I don’t think so. Humorous, yes. It is humorous and I like it. But Hilarious? C’mon Erica!!!
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:54amYeah Erica! Why don’t you post a video of yourself falling out of your chair and rolling around laughing hilariously while watching this video? Now that might be hilarious. The Blaze contributors need to get a new thesarus.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:56am*Thesaurus
Report Post »Gums
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:53amWhat the hell are you kids talking about?
Front of the line… pronto.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 3:30amThe allocution of this lacrosse player brought to you by Nifong and Nifong, attorneys at law.
(I am a non-attorney spokesman)
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:37amThis is a great story. Teachers are not allowed to discipline students anymore. When my children were young, they were given ‘red cards’ to bring home when they were disruptive in class. I’m sure most parents just threw these red cards in the trash. My wife and I drove our children to school early the next day after receiving a red card, made them stand up in front of the class, and read a prepared speech apologizing to the teacher and the rest of the class for wasting their valuable class time. This was the worst punishment my children could conceive, and they cried inconsolably the whole way to school. None of my children ever received more than one ‘red card’.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:50amYou have smart kids when they learn at the first lesson.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:36amKudos to Southwest for playing along and not acting like flight nazi’s.
Report Post »Kenszen
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:04amGood story. Good coaches.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:56amA REAL kid. One without serious issues. One that is probably lucky enough to have to loving parents and a coach that’s like a big brother or an uncle. One that has been raised properly. A kid that knows love.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:32amI like the general good nature of everyone there. His “crime” was minor. He took responsibility for it, and made everyone feel good, and had them smiling. His coaches are decent people.
Report Post »Obamujahadeen
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:26amThere’s the type of coaches I grew up around in my youth through college sports, unlike others today who will remain nameless so as to not ruin the thread with HIS name on it….
Report Post »iwillnotbequiet
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:54pmLife lessons are not always fun.. Live and learn young man. Way to go coaches.
Report Post »SolitudeBliss
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:02pmGreat post
Report Post »raisingkidsforthetruth
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:33pmBeing I live in Texas I can say, we purposefully teach our young kids respect here. He probably opens the door for women and says please/thank you and calls his elders sir and ma’am too. Kudos to the young man for being a good sport and to the coaches and airline staff that made him accountable for his actions… as minor as they appear it is better that life lessons be learned by little mistakes than by big ones,
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:29amI am a Texan, by birth, but IMO respect and consideration, nowadays, are considered “special qualities” instead of the norm. In our day, we opened doors for women, women entered first, we did NOT cut lines, and we took no BS from people.
Report Post »These days, people will just as soon cut you off, in a parking lot and act like you were the problem. FAT PEOPLE (gastrointestinally challenged) people take ALL the handi-cap parking spaces, or some kid drives his handicap Grandma, she stays in the car and he runs into the stor, or the handicap person takes the space and their passenger gets out and goes in.
Good lick finding a scooter, all the fat people, took them.
Now, even though I wear braces on both legs, I try to find some place close to a handicap space, just to let the really crippled people get the pace, but it usually turns out to be another fat (sorry, gastrointestinally-challenged) person.
I know this is a story about apologies. Just go into any Dept. store, Sooner or later, you will come upon some one blocking the whole aisle, someone who take 45 items into the 25 or less item checkout. No apologies, whatsoever. People are just not taught manners, any sense of propriety, or graciousness anymore.
ThePostman
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:26amYup, we are Texas, we expect more from ourselves.
I feel truly sorry for kids who are not blessed to be raised with such firm caring. There are a lot of them. The are the vunnables (A Michael Berry reference, look it up).
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:53amIt ain’t just in Texas, pardner. That’s all over the rural south.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 3:36am@ Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Yes, I have in-laws still using the handicapped card, even though grandmom died more than a year ago. I can’t really say anything without causing problems between my child and his in-laws. I say nothing to protect my child.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:09amI hear ya Grayling .. NC, outside of the liberal hell holes like Asheville and Chapel Hill, we are all like that. Good country upbringing and we still say Ma’am and Sir and we still wave to your neighbors. That‘s the way it’s gonna stay as long as I have a little fight left in me.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:23pmHe just thought he is as smart as obama and he would get away with it. Maybe the people need to remind obama where his place is too.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:01amReally? You can find a way to link this to Pres. Obama? Sounds like you need to open a window. Let some fresh air in.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:19pm…
Report Post »This is great.
I’m sure he learned a valuable lesson about accountability.
OlefromMN
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:02pmHat’s off to the kid too. He sucked it up and payed his penance. Not many stories end in an “it’s all good” fashion these days.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:47pmAccountability. It‘s what’s best for society’s youth.
Report Post »GoodSis
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:43pmNow, THIS is an apology I would accept! Let’s happily move on with life.
Report Post »sparky239
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:41pmuuuuuuhhhhhh,oh never mind…..eeeeeesshhhh
Report Post »Altair
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:37amProfound response ! Opened up a whole new perspective on this matter !
You from New York, boy ?
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:23pmIn the name of mercy. STOP USING THE WORD HILARIOUS!!! I have yet to see one of these using hilarious that is even mildly funny. Some very confused idiot likes the word HILARIOUS! Stop it, you hear me stop it!!!
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:44pmI feel the same way about the word “EPIC”; god I hate seeing that word.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:01pmI feel the same way about the word ‘epidemic’!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the OLD DAYS, an epidemic involved some COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, not OBESITY or EATING GREASY FOODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:22amFor some reason, I now hate the word “unprecedented”.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:08amI never have liked the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It’s just too damn hard to spell.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:14am@ Grayling
I have just discovered that I still know the words to that song after all these years. How about that.
Thanks.
Report Post »eaglesoverhead
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:22pmGreat job coaches! He won’t forget it and he manned up for the apology too … win win win
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:45pmAgreed. I saw this somewhere else today and must add the flight attendant did an excellent job of holding him accountable.
It was a win,win,win.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:53pmFantastic job coaches!
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:20pmThat was cool.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:18pmI like it!
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:26amMe too.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:17pmIt starts with cutting in line, then berating drive thru personnel, then killing puppies, and finally shooting up movie theaters. That is why we have to ban guns.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:25pmYou won’t understand this, but, its too soon to be making jokes about shooting up movie houses. try and think before posting.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:27pmAnd while we are at it we need to ban airplanes because this kid might kill kittens, convert to Islam, stone a homosexual to death, tie his wife to a chair and then burn the house down around her, and then fly an airplane into a building. Then we need to ban the Ford F250 because we know of at least one racist pickup that recently killed at least 14 illegals.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:52pmYou going to let us know when it is OK to joke about shooting up “movie houses” HayesStephen? Was it too soon for me to joke about Muslims flying planes into buildings? It probably was a little too soon for me to joke about racist Ford F250′s killing illegals. Actually they are not jokes Stephen. This is reality. Was it too soon for the MSM to blame the TEA Party for the Colorado shootings the same night that it happened? Was it too soon for the Demoncrats to use this psycho as an excuse to pushe their anti-gun agenda by calling for gun, ammo and magazine bans within hours and days of this incident? Is it OK for the Leftist to push THEIR agenda while the rest of us sit around with our hands tied behind our backs and duct tape over our mouths?
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:21pmIf we ban guns how are we going to shoot down those F250s that transform into Boeing 747s and prevent another 9/11?
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:53pmhayesstephen – Get up out of your chair. Get dressed. Get in your car. Go to the nearest store Wal-Mart, Target etc., AND GET A GRIP!!!!
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:12am/s really is necessary for some people.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:13pmOk……..fine
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