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.

Comments

[stephanierb.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry you had to go through all of that. I hope things get better now that you're in FL.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

It better. *hmph*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm expecting the house to implode to be honest

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. For me this is par for the course. Youdo NOT ever want to fly with me

[makd.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the day from hell. Fix yourself some lovely hot chocolate (with little marshmallows), and a couple of chocolate chip cookies. It's that kind of day - you need to nurture yourself after the long day's battle.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I had left some beer in the fridge here and that's still waiting for me so I'll be fine...tomorrow. I'm too groggy to enjoy it now

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

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

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm..... that sounds pretty bad. Remind me to never ever take a trip with you.

I hope that when you leave, it will be a lot better.

Try to have a good weekend.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'll try. Yeah traveling with me is NOT fun

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

eck trip from Hell. As you said at least your there. Here have a bad dayd Angel puppet.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I like the bad day Angel puppet thank you. Packing now. Already very sore. UPS wants 5$ a box! Guess who was in dumpsters behind stores?

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

Oooh I don't blame you. The local Walmart will usually give you boxes if they haven't already trashed them. When we moved from TN to here that's what I did.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

we just figured out that if I mail my books media mail it'll be half the price of UPS

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sorry your trip started out so badly. Thank goodness I have a non-stop flight when I go home next weekend. I hope the rest of your trip goes better.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. The shipping costs are staggering.I'm not sure I can DO this after all. Must talk to mom.

Good luck withyour trip

[natgel.livejournal.com]

Oy, and I thought our airport was bad.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

This always happens to me. I'm not kidding.

Not in the travel magazines

[kablooey64.livejournal.com]

Evil things, these traveling gremlins. At least you didn't see one on the wing of the plane, like William Shatner. Or Bugs Bunny, Smile.
EE-AH-O. Repeat.

Re: Not in the travel magazines

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

One of these days I'll see that gremlin.