I was on a Tower Air charter from Bangkok to Gatters many moons ago. The plane was so old and cruddy it had to make a fuel stop at Bahrain.
We were given temporary disembarkation cards and headed off to the bar. After 40 minutes we wandered back to see a service truck wedged under the wing with several blokes looking up at the damage and scatching their heads.
So that was it. A 12 hour delay.
We got back to the bar and the guy was closing it up. This was serious, a big delay and no bar.
So we came to a 'gentleman's agreement' with the barman. He stayed open. We paid 50 percent extra per pint -- he binned the 50 percent and hopefully got kudos from his boss for staying open.
When we finally took off I slept through to finals.