Bill Walton is an eccentric fellow. Everyone knows this. To add to his already peculiar personality, he is also a very avid biker. Not that there is anything wrong with biking, but at 6’11, he stands out in a crowd.
Monday, tragedy struck when it appeared Walton was without his beloved bike after traveling to Hawaii. He took to Twitter and pleaded to Hawaiian Airlines to return his bike after it was presumably lost in transit.
https://twitter.com/BillWalton/status/798238655059894272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It starts out simple enough, the man wants his bike back. When you have some celebrity clout, you can get these companies to respond in short order.
Bill, we apologize for the inconvenience. Can you send us more details in a PM?
— Hawaiian Airlines (@HawaiianAir) November 14, 2016
They give a typical response and try their best to put a customer service slant on the incident.
https://twitter.com/BillWalton/status/798242207668936704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Walton wasn’t having it though. The man just wants his bike. It doesn’t matter that he is trying to talk directly to a brand, he is going to do whatever he can to make it happen
Can you send us your email and confirmation code in a PM?
— Hawaiian Airlines (@HawaiianAir) November 14, 2016
Little did Hawaiian Airlines know they were walking into one of the better burns in recent memory.
https://twitter.com/BillWalton/status/798248439335174144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
ZING! Walton should frame this tweet because it is an absolute all-timer. Then, perhaps because of his burn and perhaps unrelated, the story came to a happy end.
https://twitter.com/BillWalton/status/798326342685102081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
While he doesn’t provide much information, only tagging a fellow that owns a bike shop in Maui, we can assume cosmic forces helped Walton get his wheels back. Also, the basketball announcer ends his tweet chain by noting that he is going to be biking up to a volcano. As you do.
It’s Bill Walton’s world, we’re just living in it.
About Sam Blazer
Sam is a self proclaimed chess prodigy. He once placed seventh in the state of Ohio in Chess when he was in kindergarten. He will rarely if ever mention though that only eight people were entered in this tournament. Contact him at sblaze17@gmail.com