NOT off to a great start

[cornerofmadness]

I get to the airport and my ride leaves because heck I printed my boarding pass just like 2 hours before my flight and the computer said all was well. The computer lied. The rain had delayed my plane by 2 hours and NO ONE was going to make the connectors.Insert curse here. My ride has no cell phone and he's not likely to go home. Insert curse here. I decide if I wait until tomorrow's flight I won't get in to FL until Midnight Friday. I call mom, 'Mom can we swing a hotel room in Minneapolis if I fly there because oddly the LAST flight to Disney World um I mean Orlando is at 7PM Insert curse here.' She finds a hotel while I call Sharon to tell her my flight is messed up and I won't be there until 11#)AM friday. She's not there. I leave message and I know she won't pick it up because if I'm not there answering machines messages go unheeded. Insert curse here. Mom gets me a hotel room that was nearly 200$ a night but because it's the middle of teh week it's only 100$ with a 24 hours shuttle which is good since I have to leave the hotel at 530AM to catch my plane. Insert curse here.

So I decide to go to Minn. I of course get tagged for the complete search at security (as per always) we get there after 8pm. All the food places are closed but at least the hotel's restaurant is open. My waitress yells at me saying I ordered steak fries when I told her she brought me the wrong thing (I hate fries so I know better) doesn't offer to change it.Insert curse here. I eat the fries. The cable has no HBO or anything. sigh. Call mom tell her I'm alive. Have her call Sharon because I can't remember if I told her AM or PM and my cell phone has gone insane (Oh and my watch stopped too). and won't dial out. Sharon's not there. Read she's not only didn't pick up my message she didn't check the computer on my flight...

I get to the airport to find out they forgot to cancel out my flight yesterday when they rebooked me and tried to charge me 60$ for my FOUR bags of luggage...Insert curse here.. I get that straightened out and go to the gate where they failed to announce a gate change so I'm racing to another concourse but I make it.I'm preboarded because I'm in the emergency exit row and I guess they figure I need extra time to figure out how to open a door. While I'm there eating my scone reveling in the extra space in an emergency row seat, I realize no one else is on the plane but me, and the other emergency row guy. Turns out they forgot to to mark down the maintanence check and clean up in the log book. The gate agent panicked and locked down the plane and refused to change her mind that we were allowed to go until a manager came. This burned a half hour Insert curse here.

I get to Fl late. Sharon's probably about to give up on me again. But I'm here. The job is bigger than I thought it was going to be.I have SO much crap. Sigh. And today was wasted because I'm exhausted. Grrr. At least I made it here.

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This happens to me all the time when I fly.You do NOT ever want to take a trip wiht me.