Zhanga: November 8, 2008
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I had a paragraph in my last post ranting about airlines, their fees these days for checked luggage, and the lack of free meals, but I deleted it before posting because I figured I had done enough complaining for one post. Ugh.
I'm at the airport right now (it's 1:12 PM) and was supposed to be on a 1:23 to 9:14 PM flight from Seattle to DC. With no meals. What do they expect me to do, pay $10 for delicious airline food? Well, I guess United got around that by getting rid of the flight.
The Seattle-Tacoma airport's check-in area is shaped like a U, with Delta and United at opposite ends. It takes about five minutes to powerwalk to one from the other. So I arrived at around 12:20, went to the United check-in kiosks, and swiped my card. It asked if I'm flying to RDU, so I said yes, and then it dumped me at a screen telling me Delta customers can't check in here and to go check in at the Delta area. Ok, so I walked all the way over to Delta, and then Delta told me the first leg of my flight is with "another airline." Wtf? (Somebody turned her head to look when I said this.) I pulled out my laptop and saw that both legs of my flight were in fact on United Airlines, so I walked back yet again to United, and asked to speak to a person. She passed me to some other guy, who told me my flight was delayed and they had put me on a Delta flight. Gee, thanks for making that clear on the kiosk machine. It was already 12:40 now, and I had to walk all the way back to Delta check-in, get boarding passes there, and make it through security and the gates to a plane that was already boarding. Yeah right.
I already returned my rental car, checked out of the hotel, and only have one taxi voucher. So I'm stuck at the airport until my 10:25 PM flight... over nine hours from now. I land in DC at 6 AM (just like my failed interview redeye, and if there's a crying baby at 4 AM I will seriously flip out and let out all of my stored baby rage) and land in RDU at 9:47 AM.
At least I can get online here. I'll probably make a game out of seeing how many people I can Goatse in the next nine hours. Or try to find an audio input for the airport speakers so I can rickroll the entire airport.
4:25PM
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