So we made it ok, but it was a much longer trip than anticipated. We flew into O’Hare (2nd most miserable airport in the nation, thank you US News & World Report) and volunteered to be bumped.
I’ve tried and tried before to get bumped, but I never could. The downside was that we were going to have to wait for 7 hours for another flight. There were other flights before then that we stood by for, but the waitlist was over a hundred people and the flights were all packed anyway.
And of course our eventual flight was delayed again and again, we finally got left close to nine hours after we were initially supposed to. You’ll see from the previous link, about 42.3% of flights are delayed at O’Hare.
Fortunately we got put in first class, and the 777 we were on for the first leg was amazing. That’s the way we’re traveling from now on.
Providing I become a millionaire soon.
3 Responses
June 27th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Welcome to Utopia.
Glad you made it.
Will you be holding any open houses to benefit the natives?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Yes there is, Mark, this Sunday at 3!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Bummer. My Sunday is full.
Tell you what. Maybe around 3:30 you can take a swig of iced tea and remember that I might be at that very time thinking of you doing that. Then find someone whose hand you already shook and whose bald top you already patted, and repeat the process, telling him that you’re doing it vicariously for me since I’m not there but possibly thinking about it.
On the other hand, maybe not.
Yeah, that makes more sense.
In any event, enjoy Utopia’s beautiful sunshine. And allergens. And people. And fruit. And green. And brown.
Etc.