Er - disaster? I don't remember using that description. And the honey was in my bag. And of course I don't expect people to ignore smoke alarms - though judging by this one, no-one was taking any evacuation action, the assumption has to be that it was a false alarm. There have been no stories about a fire at LGW that I've seen. My point was that the PTB weren't telling anyone anything.
The point is not that the whole thing was a nightmare - those are few and far between these days - but that the accumulation of little annoyances add up, and that they seem to be particularly frequent in the airline industry, where passengers (oh - sorry, customers - forgot the PC terminology) has little or no control over their fate. Or even information about it.
Thanks skydriller for your understanding of the point I was trying to make.