Too Early for Ticketing
Brother Blonde Bomber was right on time at 5am to pick me up and take me to TUS airport. It was good to see him and I promised to get to Calgery sometime next year.
The airport was deserted except for the long check=in line at United. The ticket office opens at 5:15 am. But I wanted to get there early. The Alaska Air counter folks were already working ticketing people. The agent finally came and my upgrades cleared all the way to EWR.
After nearly having a stroke when a security office knocked my MAC (luckily in a plastic Tupperware like container) to the floor… it worked… and dealing with a sour cashier who did not want to open before 6am I made it to the gate, wrote some of this trip report and waited for the Shuttle.
Watch That Seat!
We arrived on time, I guess a first for a Shuttle, and I dashed to the gate for the EWR flight. There were a series of technical difficulties: One door locked jammed, then catering knocked out the emergency suite. We left about 45 minutes later but the captain promised to make up the time in the air.
There was about 4 empty seats in first, but filling the seats was a very chatty young women I will call “Chatty Catty” traveling with her parents who said it was her first experience in First class. She was about 40 and acting like 8. She kept playing with buttons and making demands of the Flight attendants. Another woman sat beside her and they could not stop talking! Even with my hearphones in my ears I could hear them.
Did have a good seatmate, a Hawaiian shirt wearing dude named BOB who is a 1K and traveling all over on business. We watched “Cats and Dogs” and agreed with the very tall and blonde Flight attendant that it DISCRIMINATED AGAINST CATS! CATS ARE NOT ALL EVIL. CONSIDER… ME FOR INSTANCE!
“Chatty Catty” said to her seat mate that she thought the movie was very funny, and said she's no fan of "coniving cats."
Then Bob had to get up and he asked if the women would move their seats. The one by th window did a bit but Chatty Catty moved her DOWN… right on top of my MAC. I said loud enough “Gee, They don’t give us guys enough room to get around.”
She turned around and gave me the coldest glare and said to her seatmate “I paid for first and I have the right to put my seat on his lap if I want.” Her mother leaned over, whispered something and apoligzed to she. She snapped her seat up and glared at me on occasion for the rest of the trip.
Guess she’s not a CAT person.
There was time for a second movie, “Legally Blonde” and I really enjoyed this. I did not realize Reese Witherspoon had a gift for comedy. Better than average story. Good performances and it was nice for those who did not fit in, even the beautiful Reece at Harvard Law School, to prove their worth. I hope Reece tries a few more comedies in her future.
We arrived about a half hour later and my latest adventures came to an end.
Luckily, I did NOT find snakes but I did have a wonderful time! Looking forward to my next Flyertalk event!
Everyone, please send PremEx positive cat and dog and sheep vibes so he feels better!
Newself, I fired Commander Catcop as he was about to fire you for falling asleep reading my trip report. J Heck, we double snoring miles earning buds have to stick together!
[This message has been edited by Catman (edited 10-29-2001).]