Just got back from a great if exhausting trip to New York. Before I get to that, tho, I finally goot my share of bad flying experiences.

Wednesday night, I guess we got the remnants of Hurricane Dennis here in Cleveland, and there was a ground stop for hours at the Cleveland airport, which meant that even tho I got transferred from the 7:10 flight to the 4:50 flight, we actually didn't leave the ground until about 10pm. Which meant I go to Newark at about 11:30, half an hour from my destination in Chatham, and I had to get up in the morning for the 8:35 train.

This morning, I go to the airport at the normal amount of time ahead (a little over an hour early - not the 2-3 hours early mom feels is necessary). Well, instead of the normal thing, where the agents at the check in counter take your checked bags and scan or don't scan them in the x-ray, we all had to line up for the 1 open machine at whatever designated station.

First they sent me to the international line, which didn't move for 15 minutes. Then they put me in another line, which did move, but I was all the way in the back. Finally I waved someone down and got to piss off a bunch of people by cutting in line because at that point I'd been in line long enough that my flight was boarding in 7 minutes.

Luckily the security line wasn't long, so I got through that and proceeded to what I thought was my gate (listed on my boarding pass) right next to the security checkpoint. I get there and find out my plane was moved to a gate all the way at the end of the airport, so I ran in sock feet over the people movers and got to the gate just as they said "We are now pre-boarding first class passengers...". |