Thursday, June 28, 2007

Homeward Bound

0745 - Wake up in Atlantic City

0810 - Shitty cinnamon roll at Starbucks

0845 - Train to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station

1030 - Train to Philadelphia International Airport

1115 - Shitty pastrami sandwich at airport bar

1200 - CNN Headline News at gate

1300 - Plain M&Ms at gate

1325 - Mechanical problem reported on aircraft: delay = 1 hour

1425 - Board new plane

1525 - On plane, rereading "Breakfast at Tiffany's", waiting to takeoff

1630 - Still reading, waiting to takeoff

1730 - Waiting to takeoff, planning various means of homicide for chatty, stupid woman in row behind me

1745 - Next in line to takeoff!

1750 - Fuel low, taxi back to gate

1755 - Flight cancelled due to weather somewhere between Philly and KC

1800 - In line to arrange alternative flight

1900 - In line to arrange alternative flight, planning where to stash body of chatty, stupid woman next to me, who is loudly calling local hotels to ask for smoking exclamation point, not non-smoking underlined, rooms

2000 - Gate agent explains that the next available flight from Philly to KC will be Sunday (4 days from now)

2015 - Get a flight to DC

2100 - Waiting in airport

2200 - Waiting in airport, shitty slice of Sbarro forced down gullet

2250 - Thunderstorm begins

2315 - Board flight for DC

2400 - Sitting on plane, at gate, watching rain fall

0100 - Plane in line for runway, finish "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

0115 - Liftoff

0215 - Touchdown in DC

0230 - Ring wrong apartment, Serpentine's neighbor buzzes me in anyway, sleep

0930 - Book flight from Baltimore to KC

0945 - I needed that shower in the worst way

1000 - Delightful ginger scones (again) and some kind of super black tea at Teaism

1100 - Wander around Dupont

1200 - Blogger

1530 - Baltimore by train?

1930 - KC by air?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

0130 - KC by air?

P.S. It's 0220 right now, and Stolz's plane just landed. I hope to be in Tonganoxie by 0300 to pick him up. Good times.

Floyd

dn said...

Yeah, so it actually went:

1500 - Board train to Baltimore

1600 - Checked in at airport

1700 - Waiting for flight

1800 - Waiting for flight

1900 - Flight scheduled to leave in 30 minutes, but there doesn't seem to be a plane at the gate. We're told the delay should last until 2130

2000 - Make that 2230

2100 - Make that 0130

2200 - Make that 0230

2300 - Called every Central Time Zone friend I know

2400 - Called the one Pacific Time Zone friend I know

0100 - Wished I was capable of sleeping in airports

0200 - Ibid

0230 - A plane arrives from Albany, carrying two passengers

0430 - CDT now, happy to be off the plane and away from the jerk-offs in the window and isle seats.

0445 - Get baggage claim phone numbers from one of the three employees left in the airport, so I can call about my missing luggage.

0514 - Shuttle drops me off near my car.

0600 - Arrive in my bedroom.