On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:19:02 GMT, "john hawkins"
wrote:

Other times I'd hear some poor fella who sounded nervous. They always got
treated poorly. Approach just did not have time to deal withsome who was
going to take up a lot of time on the frequency.


I've heard busy ground controllers do the same. G

Nervous Ned sits in parking with his engine running, ignored, while
ground hands out taxi clearance after taxi clearance. Once he makes
a coherent request, he finally gets on his way.