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Next time, I drive.
Jul. 26th, 2005 10:07 pmHihi. I'm back from my trip to Kansas City for my cousin's wedding. Wedding was lovely, Everyone in the family remains disturbingly good looking. Sunday was an 80th birthday party for my grandma which went smashingly. So Monday I was on my way home....or so I thought.
I had to catch a ride to the airport with my aunt, so we left at 7:00 for a 10:30 flight. The plan was fly to Chicago, then from Chicago to Dayton and be back at three. But the 10:30 flight got delayed to 11:20. Ok, tight, but still doable. At 11:20 they taxied out onto the runway....and stopped. For fourty mintues. Then! They taxied back to the gate (this is when I turned to the lady next to me and said, "Thank you for taxi-ing with American Airlines. Please make sure your seatbelts are buckled and your seats have been placed in the upright position!") because the flight was delayed another hour. But they wouldn't let us off the plane for security reasons.
Finally! around 1:00 our flight took off. When we got to Chicago there was a guy with a clipboard at the gate to let us know if our connecting flights were canceled. He told me my plane hadn't taken off, the gate, and I RAN across the terminal. Only to find out that....you guessed it, the plane left without me. (Thank god I only had my carryon and no checked luggage!) I called Travelocity and they rerouted me......to St. Louis. (For those of you unfamiliar with US cities...Kansas City and St. Louis are both in the same state so it was practically coming back full circle) And then my flight for Dayton didn't leave until 9:00 so I finally got home at 11:30.
The real rub in all of this, the icing on the cake, if you will, is that my parents drove back from KC to Detroit, and to do that they have to pass through Dayton. And when I called them from St. Louis, they were already home! I could have chucked my ticket and just gotten a ride.
On the upside of all this, I have played a lot of Pokemon Pinball and read about half of Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything.'
I had to catch a ride to the airport with my aunt, so we left at 7:00 for a 10:30 flight. The plan was fly to Chicago, then from Chicago to Dayton and be back at three. But the 10:30 flight got delayed to 11:20. Ok, tight, but still doable. At 11:20 they taxied out onto the runway....and stopped. For fourty mintues. Then! They taxied back to the gate (this is when I turned to the lady next to me and said, "Thank you for taxi-ing with American Airlines. Please make sure your seatbelts are buckled and your seats have been placed in the upright position!") because the flight was delayed another hour. But they wouldn't let us off the plane for security reasons.
Finally! around 1:00 our flight took off. When we got to Chicago there was a guy with a clipboard at the gate to let us know if our connecting flights were canceled. He told me my plane hadn't taken off, the gate, and I RAN across the terminal. Only to find out that....you guessed it, the plane left without me. (Thank god I only had my carryon and no checked luggage!) I called Travelocity and they rerouted me......to St. Louis. (For those of you unfamiliar with US cities...Kansas City and St. Louis are both in the same state so it was practically coming back full circle) And then my flight for Dayton didn't leave until 9:00 so I finally got home at 11:30.
The real rub in all of this, the icing on the cake, if you will, is that my parents drove back from KC to Detroit, and to do that they have to pass through Dayton. And when I called them from St. Louis, they were already home! I could have chucked my ticket and just gotten a ride.
On the upside of all this, I have played a lot of Pokemon Pinball and read about half of Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything.'
