The TE999 sympathy thread

[SweetWitch]

Anyone who was in Chicago over the weekend knows how miserable my trip north was. For those of you who didn’t attend, suffice it to say that it was pure hell. I got there nearly five hours late after a dismal ride on a train full of adults, small children and even babies that had been trapped there as long as thirty hours. The aromas , the mood and the ride itself were bad enough that I’ll likely never spend another dime with Amtrak.

Yuck.

But that’s my luck. Apparently, my bad luck rubbed off on TE999. He’s still trapped at O’Hare right now. He missed his flight after they changed terminals on him. He made a mad dash to the opposite end of the airport only to get there in time to see the plane take off. He’s still there, miserable and angry.

The next flight won’t leave for another hour. His bags went on without him. He’s been trapped in airport hell since this morning. Send him your sympathy and a few crass jokes. He can use all the laughs he can get.

 

[impressive]

I sooooooooooo know what it feels like to enter travel hell on the way home from a Litogether. My Milwaukee experience still makes me cringe.

 

[Katyusha]

Anyone who was in Chicago over the weekend knows how miserable my trip north was. For those of you who didn’t attend, suffice it to say that it was pure hell. I got there nearly five hours late after a dismal ride on a train full of adults, small children and even babies that had been trapped there as long as thirty hours. The aromas , the mood and the ride itself were bad enough that I’ll likely never spend another dime with Amtrak.

Yuck.

But that’s my luck. Apparently, my bad luck rubbed off on TE999. He’s still trapped at O’Hare right now. He missed his flight after they changed terminals on him. He made a mad dash to the opposite end of the airport only to get there in time to see the plane take off. He’s still there, miserable and angry.

The next flight won’t leave for another hour. His bags went on without him. He’s been trapped in airport hell since this morning. Send him your sympathy and a few crass jokes. He can use all the laughs he can get.

Oh no. O'Hare's a terrible place to be trapped. And for such a ridiculous reason...I hate the airlines sometimes. I hope that he does make this next flight.

 

[rgraham666]

My sympathies, buddy.

I had my own share of fun at O'Hare yesterday.

 

[SweetWitch]

They already changed gates on the new flight on him. This time though, they gave him the heads-up call that he was supposed to get with the first one.

 

[jomar]

If only TE could use the TAP to get home.

 

[DesertPirate]

I haven't been in O'Hare since the 70's, are there still a few Hare Krishnas that he can beat?

 

[Katyusha]

My sympathies, buddy.

I had my own share of fun at O'Hare yesterday.

Do I want to know? ::grumbling about the ridiculousness that is O'Hare Int'l Airport and all the airlines there::

 

[Katyusha]

They already changed gates on the new flight on him. This time though, they gave him the heads-up call that he was supposed to get with the first one.

Good. Hopefully he'll make this flight and get out of there.

Our weather's terrible today. I hope that doesn't have any effect on his flight.

 

[SweetWitch]

I haven't been in O'Hare since the 70's, are there still a few Hare Krishnas that he can beat?

I believe that would fit his current mood.

Bwaahaahaahaaaaaaa

 

[Emperor_Nero]

Airports can be such frustrating places ....

Good luck getting out soon TE -- even if it means returning to the real world

 

[Katyusha]

I haven't been in O'Hare since the 70's, are there still a few Hare Krishnas that he can beat?

It's under construction and so the Hare Krishnas are elsewhere. Don't go through O'Hare for the next twenty years, otherwise you'll get stuck in all that construction.

 

[SweetWitch]

10 things you don't want to hear your pilot say:

1 Bugger!
2 What's that switch for?
3 It might get a little bumpy
4 Right I've done my job (after take off) I'm going to sleep now
5 That doesn't sound good
6 Brace
7 Mayday, mayday, mayday
8 We're flying into the desert (Why not fly over it?)
9 I could do with a Red Bull
10 Don't press that, it's the ejector seat

 

[SweetWitch]

Overheard between two flight attendants while boarding: “Well, so much for an on-time departure.”

Over the intercom before takeoff: “We’re going to have to ask everyone to close the shades on your windows to help keep it from getting too hot. We’re going to be without air conditioning for a while.”

A mother to her young child: “Does your tummy feel better since you had that pizza?”

 

[DesertPirate]

When ever I flew home in the Navy they wandted to send me United, Norfolk - O'Hare and American O'Hare - Dalas - El Paso.
On the return there was not enough time for bags to make the switch so they had to deliver it to the pier
One time I made them send me to Atlanta and then El Paso, half the time and no baggage problems

 

[SweetWitch]

Flying home after a Litogether:

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh34/Molly_Wens/ramirez.gif

 

[jomar]

http://www.airlinepictures.net/photopost/data/514/3145qantas8.jpg

......

 

[SweetWitch]

Tea spew!

 

[Katyusha]

Over the intercom before takeoff: “We’re going to have to ask everyone to close the shades on your windows to help keep it from getting too hot. We’re going to be without air conditioning for a while.”

That actually happened to me, except we weren't asked to close the shades. It was in the middle of the summer...one of the most miserable flights I ever had.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

The next flight won’t leave for another hour. His bags went on without him. He’s been trapped in airport hell since this morning. Send him your sympathy and a few crass jokes. He can use all the laughs he can get.

Don't have any crass airline jokes for TE999, but he does have my sympathy.

 

[Katyusha]

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh34/Molly_Wens/ramirez.gif

BOY am I glad I'm not drinking anything!!

 

[Elianna]

10 things you don't want to hear your pilot say:

1 Bugger!
2 What's that switch for?
3 It might get a little bumpy
4 Right I've done my job (after take off) I'm going to sleep now
5 That doesn't sound good
6 Brace
7 Mayday, mayday, mayday
8 We're flying into the desert (Why not fly over it?)
9 I could do with a Red Bull
10 Don't press that, it's the ejector seat

11. Was that my gun that just went off here in the cockpit?

 

[DesertPirate]

BOY am I glad I'm not drinking anything!!

Molly and Jomar owe me a monitor cleaning

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hmmmm . . . Molly had Hell on wheels (and rails), Tom's in airport Purgatory, you can't get to Chicago from here on a boat and I don't like to drive in snow. This is so not a good omen. Let's get back to the Lit-West Daydreams thread. Y'all come here, it will be easier on all concerned.

 

[SweetWitch]

11. Was that my gun that just went off here in the cockpit?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

Hicup.