51 passengers to a broken bird

Organized chaos is how I can best describe this Space-A flight process. They loaded us all on buses out to the plane, and when we got close to it, we noticed the broken engine cover was still off. So they put us all back in the terminal and told us they'd brief us in 3 hours. This didn't happen, but you know me...I'm all about the communcation :) So, I found out that they didn't have the part needed to fix it, wand when they do get it, it'll take 3 hours to fix. We've been sitting here for 9 hours now watching the line to see if any maintenance people go out to the plane to fix it. Negative. Good thing I didn't try to push it any closer than 5 days to get back! :)