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December 06, 2003
Adventures in Traveling..
...the saga continues....
It rained most of the day at the hotel...a little wintery mix now and then from the sound of it all. The ride to the airport was uneventuful thanks especially to our knowledge of the "back route". By the time we got near Reagan National there was no evidence of snow at all. I had been spending the day looking up flight status of other flights to VT. I was confident.....silly girl.
Since we were 5 hours early we were given the chance to give up our 9pm direct flight to VT to get on a 6pm to Phillie and then a 8pm to VT..both first class. Seemed reasonable thing since our 9pm was already listing as being an hour late and the weather was going to deteriorate. We took it...silly people.
First it was delayed...then we were told we wouldn't make our 8pm connection ( but there was a 9:45) then they finally announced the plane wasn't even going to land in PHL at all so unless you were planning on going to Portland Maine..get in line. We got in line at the USAir Club where that woman said no way would she have ever switched us to Phillie flights since they'd been having trouble all day there....I seeeee. So we got rebooked on our 9pm direct flight to no snow land.
It looked promising when we boarded at 9:45 when they showed a 10:21 departure...it looked less promising when we started taking on more fuel at 10:45pm and even less exciting when we finally left the gate at 11:45pm to get in line to de-ice. We got home around 1:45am.
Add to the mix some interesting (not) folks sitting near us...the guy who immediately took off his shoes...AND SOCKS..and proceeded to stick his yucky crusty foot out into the aisle near Greg. Since we had just seen on the news that there is a terrorist threat of carrying explosive materials onto planes via socks, I was tempted to alert the crew. As it turned out, he was just annoying especially when he decided to put his sneakers out into the aisle along with his water bottle and made no attempt to move them or apologize when people had to step over them. I guess some people think their frequent flyer privileges are more extensive than others.
The young lady behind him ..and I use the term "lady" loosely...was also annoying as her language deteriorated along with the weather and delays. I do believe we all realized how effin' frustrated she was. I wonder if the foot guy ever figured out she was reading his computer screen over his shoulder...I would think he would have felt her breathing in his ear.
At any rate...as I said..we are home..it has started to snow here now but I have to go out and get some stuff.....have a good day all.
Posted by frani at December 6, 2003 10:32 AM
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