CARDRUNNERS

What's Your Edge

Andrew

December 26, 2008

Christmas was good. I was ready to get out of Detroit though. I had a trip to New Orleans planned with a few of my good friends. I have never been, so I was really looking forward to it. I got up at 5am this morning so that I could make my 720 flight. I was flying back to Chicago and then meeting up with my friends and taking a non stop flight to New Orleans. I was concerned about the weather but felt much better when I woke up and saw everything seemed to be good in Detroit. Apparently, Chicago was another story. My flight was "on time" until about 10 minutes before we were supposed to take off. They then tagged it with a delayed indefinitely tag. Awesome. After a hour, I knew I wasn't going to make my connection, but I was still optimistic about getting to New Orleans. I figured that getting back to Chicago presented me with the most options, so I was still looking to get back to Chicago. We boarded our plane at about 930 and I was feeling pretty good. About a hour and a half later I wasn't feeling so good. We were still sitting on the runway and they decided we weren't going to take off. That meant that they drove back to the gate so we could get off the plane. I then started looking into the possibilities from Detroit. Unfortunately Detroit sucks and there were essentially none. I could take a flight that had 2 layovers and I would need to be on standby for every leg of the flight. Fuck that. Basically my only option was to try again the next day. The thing is that we were only going for 3 days. We were also planning on going to the Rockets - Hornets game today. I had bought some sick seats. 2nd row off the court. The fact that I was missing that game and an entire day made me come to the conclusion that it just wasn't worth it to go. So I'm not back at my aunt's house in beautiful Detroit and just feeling miserable about the whole situation. Luckily I bought insurance on my tickets so I shouldn't be out the money on them. Although, something tells me that they will make it as difficult as possible to recoup the money.

I'm gonna head up to our family cabin for a few days. There is a lot of snow up there so it should be fun. Normally, I'd be pretty pumped about going up there. I just feel really down about missing this trip. I was really looking forward to it. I'm not the type of person to get excited about things, so to have something I was excited about fall apart at the last minute just feels like shit.

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Dec 27, 08 16:01:52

After two hours of sitting on the runwa my flight took off, got half-way to Chicago, and then turned around. I was never so tilted in all my life.

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