So long for a while

[rgraham666]

Just to update you: We have set up the daughter in a small house, and have furnished it for her. That is not as expensive as it might sound because our granddaughter, the one with thr great ass, contributed some things, and prices are rather low here. She has called her offspring and let them know she is okay, and has left their father. He wants to talk to her, but she won'y let him. We are also visiting family and making a nice vacation trip out of it.

I can't submit any stories but I am writing and, when I get back, I will have about six to submit, including the Halloween story.

Good to hear from you, Box. Nice to know things are going well.

Looking forward to reading what you wrote as well.

 

[Boxlicker101]

If you are reading this, it means I have arrived safely home from the Philippines, thereby beating the laws of averages. My wife and I accomplished our goal, and got our daughter set up in a place of her own, where her husband doesn't know where she is. Besides that, we had a very nice visit with relatives, including the granddaughter I mentioned before. Besides her previous mentioned attributes, she had a very pretty face and is a really sweet person. She expects to get married next year and has done me the honor of asking me to give her away. I hope her groom is worthy of her. I have never performed that function, and I am really looking forward to it.

We've met him and his family and they all seem really nice, especially his mother. I think they will make a go of it. I hope so. The women in my wife's family, except for picking me, have usually done a lousy job of picking husbands or SO. Our daughter's husband is a prime example, but there are some even worse ones.

The trip was enjoyable and successful right up until the time to go home. We were booked on Northwest Airlines to leave at 8:05AM, but it left two hours early, about the time we arrived, in order, to beat Typhoon Milenho.(SP?) We were stranded. They put it up in a hotel in Manila, and it wasn't too bad. I read that it was the worst typhoon to hit Manila in 11 years. We watched out the hotel windows and it was windy and rainy but didn't seem like such a big deal. It did cause an electrical failure in Manila and everywhere else for a few days, but just to watch the wind and rain, it didn't seem like much. I have certainly experienced worse, but there were 71 reported fatalities, the last I know.

Supposedly we were rebooked on a Philippine Airlines flight at 10:30 the following night. We went back to join the relatives and waited until early evening before returning to the airport. There we found out we weren't booked; we were just on standby and, even if we had been able to get seats, it wouldn't have done us any good because the flight was canceled at the last minute, probably for mechanical failure, but I'm not sure. We were rebooked for the same flight the following night.

At least, we thought we were, because their ticket office told us so, after my wife spent most of the day getting assurances that all systems were GO.. However, some bureaucratic idiot at PAL found a T undotted or an I uncrossed, or vice-versa, and we were once again denied permission to board. We were really pissed over that, especially the third time, but we could do nothing about it, so we returned to the home of our daughter.

Canceling the first flight because of a bad storm is not all that unreasonable but other planes took off or landed during it, so it may not have been necessary. NWA lied to us about the second booking. The cancellation may have been unavoidable, but that does not alter the fact that they lied about it and about some other things. The third time we were denied permission to board it was stupidity, both bureaucratic and otherwise. We will never fly NWA again. If we were stranded on a desert island, and they sent a seaplane to rescue us, we would tell them to go away and send somebody else. We long ago gave up on PAL as a Mickey Mouse operation and would never have chosen them and, most emphatically, never will again. We are scheduled to fly out tomorrow on Singapore Airlines, and I hope to have better luck with them.

Back to the typhoon. As I said, it didn’t look like all that much, and only lasted a few hours, but the results were long lasting. Manila was blacked out for days, as was the city where we have been staying. Even now, the city water supply is cut off, except for a few dribbles, and we have been using rainwater. We have been getting a lot of that. The power was off for a couple of days here; as were cell phone and internet services. I don’t know why those last two are off, but they were, during the storm, and still are. I can’t even go to an internet café, but I can write this griping post. Even there, though, I have only a limited amount of battery available.

I can also write dirty stories and I have completed seven, and one poem. I will probably submit them at the same time as I post this. One of them is my Halloween Contest entry, and I hope it isn’t too smutty or too scary.

Okay, we’re home. I have submitted my Halloween story and some others. I will submit four more as soon as I haven given them another look.

Singapore Airlines is a class operation. The stewardesses are real beauties and the flight was comfortable. The problem is that is was a long flight, over 24 hours on the plane or waiting in an airport. We went from Manila to Singapore, waited five hours, flew to Hong Kong, waited another hour and flew from there to SFO. After fighting jet lag, I feel my old (really old) self.

 

[Guest]

Singapore Airlines is a class operation. The stewardesses are real beauties

I have a single friend in San Francisco that has been seeking the layover hangout of Singapore stewardesses with all the zealousness of an ivory hunter seeking the elephant graveyard . No luck so far.

Welcome home Box.