Last week's travel

I thought that nothing can surprise me any more, but my flight from Las Vegas, NV to San Jose, CA taught me that I was wrong. Here's what happened:

• we boarded the Southwest plane on time and everything seemed dandy,
• 3 minutes before the scheduled departure time (11:50 am) pilot started chatting with us on the intercom and informed us that we are waiting for a few late passengers from the late connecting flight; oh well...
• five minutes later a few passengers appeared, but we were still waiting for something,
• another five minutes and large group of passengers arrives and settles down; I overheard that they were from the cancelled Ontario, CA flight...
• few more minutes and we are still at the gate; pilot promises to investigate,
• pilot returns and says that with so many people on board and the amount of fuel currently in we are too heavy to reach San Jose; the nearest fuel truck will be available in 20 minutes, so it would be nice to have some volunteers to get off the plane...
• some volunteers do get off the plane, but it takes some time; at the end of the process somebody realizes that Ontario guys would miss the connection in San Jose now...
• Ontario guys (all of them) get off the plane,
• we finally depart at 12:30 pm - 40 minutes late!

Have you ever experienced anything like that?