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debka_notion) wrote2006-08-10 11:20 am
debka_notion) wrote2006-08-10 11:20 am
A Down: A Very Lousy Morning
I was supposed to fly to Florida this morning to see my grandmother. I was scheduled for an 8am flight, so I left here at 5:45 so I'd be at the airport by 6:30 and have plenty of time to get myself set and wait for the plane.
Instead, I arrived, checked in and checked my luggage, and got into a Huge line to go through security, and they were making everyone throw out anything at all liquid in their carry-on luggage: water bottles, lotion, mascara, pretty much everything. It was kind of ridiculous. And then I stood on that line for 3 hours- so of course I missed my flight. And then I found a line to try and get onto a later flight (along with everyone else), but then the person there sent us all somewhere else, and I had to wait on another line in order to get to a phone where I had to wait on hold until I could reach someone. By that time it was about 10:20. The next flight wouldn't be until 12:50, and would involve 2 transfers to get to where I was going, and wouldn't get in until 9:15 pm (my original flight was supposed to arrive at 11:15am), so I took the credit towards a future flight. Unfortunately, my luggage had already of course flown to Florida. So I had to go to the baggage claim office and file a form to have it sent back here, and I'm going to have to go to the airport again, probably tomorrow, in order to pick it up. But at least there wasn't a line at the baggage office.
Now I have to figure out what I'm doing for Shabbos here, since I'd planned to be in Florida, and my apartmentmate who's religious will be home with her family, and my friend who lives upstairs is home with his family.
Instead, I arrived, checked in and checked my luggage, and got into a Huge line to go through security, and they were making everyone throw out anything at all liquid in their carry-on luggage: water bottles, lotion, mascara, pretty much everything. It was kind of ridiculous. And then I stood on that line for 3 hours- so of course I missed my flight. And then I found a line to try and get onto a later flight (along with everyone else), but then the person there sent us all somewhere else, and I had to wait on another line in order to get to a phone where I had to wait on hold until I could reach someone. By that time it was about 10:20. The next flight wouldn't be until 12:50, and would involve 2 transfers to get to where I was going, and wouldn't get in until 9:15 pm (my original flight was supposed to arrive at 11:15am), so I took the credit towards a future flight. Unfortunately, my luggage had already of course flown to Florida. So I had to go to the baggage claim office and file a form to have it sent back here, and I'm going to have to go to the airport again, probably tomorrow, in order to pick it up. But at least there wasn't a line at the baggage office.
Now I have to figure out what I'm doing for Shabbos here, since I'd planned to be in Florida, and my apartmentmate who's religious will be home with her family, and my friend who lives upstairs is home with his family.
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That sounds generally sucky. Though I'm surprised that your luggage was sent to Florida -- don't they already make a big deal of unloading the bags of people who don't actually get on the flight, for security reasons? What airline were you supposed to be on, incidentally? If by some chance it was USAir/AmericaWest,
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