1. Start your day by hearing an unknown alarm ringing through the Las Vegas airport that results in the security line sitting dead still for almost half an hour.
2. Get to your plane on time, but fail to leave on time because of people who got stuck in the security line/the fact that the security alert (the story is that someone bolted from the security area, causing a lock-down until he was caught) resulted in the temporary closing of a runway means your plane has to taxi to Utah to take off.
3. Arrive in Dallas at the exact same time your flight home is leaving.
4. Get rescheduled so that you first have to go through Atlanta to get home (with another razor-thin layover and a Delta rep who cannot give you a seat assignment).
5. Get to watch the second half of a particularly pathetic Dallas Cowboys game while you wait to help lift your spirits.
6. Calling the rental car place to see about the van that the insurance company owes you because of the accident, to learn that it closes at 6 (you are to arrive at 7:30).
7. Realize as you are boarding the plane that you are a middle seat on very full flight.
7a. Realize that you seated between a person your size (6; 2″, 210ish) and a fellow well over 300 pounds).
7b. Realize that there are children behind you who will chatter throughout the entire flight (indeed, has the kids kicked my chair and had my rowmates been emitting foul odors, the stereotype would have been complete).
8. Realize that of the three reading light in your row, yours doesn’t work.
Happy ending: getting the last seat on the flight from Atlanta to Montgomery and then getting a seat in the exit-row, the one with extra, extra leg room.
And, finally, getting back home.
I was waiting for a “priceless” statement near the end; your hellacious experience sure was gearing up towards it.
“Professor Steven Taylor, finally home after a long ordeal in the skies: priceless.”
Comment by OF Jay — Sunday, October 10, 2024 @ 11:43 pm
It did occur to me
Comment by Steven Taylor — Monday, October 11, 2024 @ 6:34 am
Sounds like my last trip to San Francisco, except the kid did kick my seat… for 3 consecutive hours.
Comment by Paul — Monday, October 11, 2024 @ 7:53 am
Beltway Traffic Jam
Even though it’s a Federal holiday and the Beltway therefore less jammed than it would be otherwise, I nonetheless present the daily linkfest:
Ogged ponders the distribution of ugly people on airplanes.
Steven Taylor has some tips for happy travel….
Trackback by Outside The Beltway — Monday, October 11, 2024 @ 5:01 pm