I apologize for my post-dated entry. I started this when I was traveling to Denver for business last week. I have been saving it to finish up, but decided my wrap up was just right. I hope you enjoy and share your airport woes.
As I sit waiting for my (late) flight to board, the baby in the next aisle starts screaming, causing a chain reaction of wailing toddler, to baby, to baby.... my head hurts. I am thrilled when I realize I get to spend the next three hours with the hundred or so people around me crammed into a can that is magically staying afloat thousands of feet above land.
This flight - the one that I am currently waiting for - is a last minute trip to Denver. "Who goes to Denver on a Tuesday?" you may ask. Well, everyone. I got the last ticket on an overpriced flight. I am in seat 16E. That is smack in the middle - in the middle seat - on a flight 10 minutes shy of getting the movie. I promise, there is an upside. Oh no wait, they didn't even sell me that lovely boxed meal.
I have officially made my trip from the airport to the hotel to the conference room and back to the airport where I am now waiting.
I am waiting for my flight, which is now officially 3 hours behind schedule. I understand that snow can fall in May. It's a perfectly normal thing. I am in no real hurry to get on this three hour flight (plus I lose an hour) because it's only 7:30.
Though I might be overly exaggerating the pleasantries, I can share with you the exact reason I am in such a foul mood. I want a McChicken Sandwich. This is the conversation I just had with the McDonald's guy that put me there:
Me: Do you have the dollar menu McChicken sandwich?
McD guy: No. We don't have a dollar menu.
Me: That's fine, but can I get the McChicken. The one with lettuce and too much mayo that is usually on the dollar menu.
McD guy: You mean the spicy chicken sandwich?
Me: No. Can I just order a chicken sandwich with lettuce and mayo.
Three minutes later I am sitting by my gate, and I gleefully pull my sandwich out of the bag. WTF!
Now if it weren't for the noticeable, greasy fingerprints all over the sandwich box, I might have just sucked it up. But as it was, I threw the box in the trashed and proceeded back to the McDonald's counter.
Me: It wasn't what I wanted. Can I just get a 6-piece chicken McNuggets?
McD guy: We don't have the 6-piece here, only 10.
Me: That would be super!
Share your airport horror stories...
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I should write an entry about how I inevitably end up sitting next to, in front of or behind a screaming infant and/or an energetic toddler each time I fly.
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