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This morning, after I got off work I stopped at a gas station and picked up a small bottle of milk, came home, and ate two bowls of cereal while I watched an episode of CSI: NY.
Why is this noteworthy, you ask. Well, my original plans were to have gone instead to the local hotel where my boyfriend, who currently lives in Oklahoma, was staying, cuddle up, and slumber peacefully wrapped in the embrace of a man who bears a striking resemblance to Taye Diggs.
However, it was not to be and I got cereal and CSI instead. This is because the airline he was using to get from Tulsa to Asheville decided to play "Guess the Departure Time" with its passengers and thus he missed his flight.
The problem's worse because he was calling them all day asking them what time they expected the flight to leave, because yesterday apparently Oklahoma was getting hammered with some fairly serious winter weather. All day, whenever he called, they told him they expected the flight to leave late if at all. And so, when he arrived at the airport on time for the scheduled departure, he was expecting to have a wait.
Turned out to be a 24-hour wait because -- surprise! -- the flight left early.
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth. He had to get a hotel room, which ate into the money he'd set aside for us to go to decent restaurants while he was here. And this evening, when the next flight was to have left, he arrived -- again on time -- only to be told that tonight the flight wouldn't be leaving at all because Detroit, where the flight was to have connected to Asheville, was getting the winter weather now. And until he got extremely and publicly angry, they were planning to basically tell him to lump it. But because he got angry, they merely shunted him to another airline, with a connection in balmy Houston.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Airlines and tourism in general are thankless industries, but really, if this is how you operate, you're only cranking out SC's by the thousands at one fell swoop.
All I do know is that we won't be using that initial airline again.
Why is this noteworthy, you ask. Well, my original plans were to have gone instead to the local hotel where my boyfriend, who currently lives in Oklahoma, was staying, cuddle up, and slumber peacefully wrapped in the embrace of a man who bears a striking resemblance to Taye Diggs.
However, it was not to be and I got cereal and CSI instead. This is because the airline he was using to get from Tulsa to Asheville decided to play "Guess the Departure Time" with its passengers and thus he missed his flight.
The problem's worse because he was calling them all day asking them what time they expected the flight to leave, because yesterday apparently Oklahoma was getting hammered with some fairly serious winter weather. All day, whenever he called, they told him they expected the flight to leave late if at all. And so, when he arrived at the airport on time for the scheduled departure, he was expecting to have a wait.
Turned out to be a 24-hour wait because -- surprise! -- the flight left early.
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth. He had to get a hotel room, which ate into the money he'd set aside for us to go to decent restaurants while he was here. And this evening, when the next flight was to have left, he arrived -- again on time -- only to be told that tonight the flight wouldn't be leaving at all because Detroit, where the flight was to have connected to Asheville, was getting the winter weather now. And until he got extremely and publicly angry, they were planning to basically tell him to lump it. But because he got angry, they merely shunted him to another airline, with a connection in balmy Houston.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Airlines and tourism in general are thankless industries, but really, if this is how you operate, you're only cranking out SC's by the thousands at one fell swoop.
All I do know is that we won't be using that initial airline again.
I don't think the attempt would be very successful with those two 
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