Originally Posted by wck4
Flying SEA-DTW-EWR with a 6 month old puppy dog. This was pre- the nice new DTW terminal, in about june 2000. DTW got shut down (thunderstorms and radar problems if I recall correctly) and I was stuck for 24 hours with puppy. Oh man. I will say now thank god I had him with me, he at least kept me from getting bored. He's so mellow, he was happy to walk and down the sidewalk in front of the terminals for hours, and I smuggled him into a hotel room that night, wrapped in my sweater. (He weighed only about 7 lbs at that time, no one noticed him in the huge check in lines.)
As egtravel says... if you've traveled a lot, something like this is going to happen to you. Best to pull your cellphone out, call the elite line and get a confirmed rebooking, then roll with it as best as you can.
Yeah, sometime things just happen, and it's good to have a friend or someone to travel along with. But when i was in high school, my best friend and I travelled back home for our christmas/summer break together for a few times and it's funny that whenever I travelled with her, our flights always got delayed or cancelled (twice) due to the snowstorm or some aircraft mechanical problems but once i stopped travelling with her, my flights got to arrive earlier than the scheduled time.