another monday...
so this morning started with me standing in line at the super-efficient post office, 'cuz i had "a certified package" waiting there for me. seriously. a letter from my car dealer stating that my car plates are about to be voided unless further action from me = NOT worthy of wake-up-early, hand-received at post office, certified mail. call me, maybe?
1st flight leg was 30 mins late. my usual buddy check-in guy's on vacation today (sigh), new casual-shirt guy asks me if i want to hop in a cab or wait for my plane. what would you recommend? wait for your plane, it's coming. okay - NEVER ask for advice from new casual-shirt guy. 'cuz an hour later, i receive a text message stating my flight's 2 hours delayed, i walk from my gate, through security and back to check-in counter (haha btw, that's erm... 10 feet in the c'ville airport?). no one's there so i ding the bell like the place is flaming - casual-shirt appears, it's delayed? oh right, it is... so THEN i hop on a cab.
i doze off and wake up at 12pm - hmm. does'nt look right - i ask cabbie how far away are we? he says 30 mins. i say, my flight's at 12.40pm. he says - oh we'll get there before then. sigh - YES we sure got there before 12.40, but of course i missed my flight by the time i took the not-so-super-people-mover and by then was SOOO potong steam that when the customer service lady asks me what i wanted to do - i say: can i just go home and restart this whole travel thing tomorrow? she laughs yes. OR i can just wait and take the next flight at 7pm. i look at my watch - that's half a day from now; can you put me in the red-carpet lounge? but apparently being 1k status is good-for-nothing unles you're travelling internationally so after trying 3 times to get into this bloody-red carpet lounge (the lady WAS trying), she sees my despair and tells me to go eat and decide whether i want to go home.
instead, i called united and gave them a piece of my mind (m'am we can't do that - the local supervisor can... local my ass, they just told me they cannot do anything... m'am we cannot provide membership to the lounge... nonsense, how else do you provide your other members with membership?!... m'am, it's for purchase... yes, that's why i'm asking you to do it...).
so now i'm too tired to do much else, but here i am... sitting in the lounge. :)
1st flight leg was 30 mins late. my usual buddy check-in guy's on vacation today (sigh), new casual-shirt guy asks me if i want to hop in a cab or wait for my plane. what would you recommend? wait for your plane, it's coming. okay - NEVER ask for advice from new casual-shirt guy. 'cuz an hour later, i receive a text message stating my flight's 2 hours delayed, i walk from my gate, through security and back to check-in counter (haha btw, that's erm... 10 feet in the c'ville airport?). no one's there so i ding the bell like the place is flaming - casual-shirt appears, it's delayed? oh right, it is... so THEN i hop on a cab.
i doze off and wake up at 12pm - hmm. does'nt look right - i ask cabbie how far away are we? he says 30 mins. i say, my flight's at 12.40pm. he says - oh we'll get there before then. sigh - YES we sure got there before 12.40, but of course i missed my flight by the time i took the not-so-super-people-mover and by then was SOOO potong steam that when the customer service lady asks me what i wanted to do - i say: can i just go home and restart this whole travel thing tomorrow? she laughs yes. OR i can just wait and take the next flight at 7pm. i look at my watch - that's half a day from now; can you put me in the red-carpet lounge? but apparently being 1k status is good-for-nothing unles you're travelling internationally so after trying 3 times to get into this bloody-red carpet lounge (the lady WAS trying), she sees my despair and tells me to go eat and decide whether i want to go home.
instead, i called united and gave them a piece of my mind (m'am we can't do that - the local supervisor can... local my ass, they just told me they cannot do anything... m'am we cannot provide membership to the lounge... nonsense, how else do you provide your other members with membership?!... m'am, it's for purchase... yes, that's why i'm asking you to do it...).
so now i'm too tired to do much else, but here i am... sitting in the lounge. :)
posted by earch at 11:29 AM
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