My visit to the US Club was nice, but my favorite matrons were off that evening. I proceeded through the F/elite security line without issue. The TSA folks were pre-occupied as some unnamed Prime Minister was about to be escorted through the elite security line.
We boarded a few minutes late. I had upgraded my companion to F 7 days prior to departure, but strangely could not assign him a seat next to me. I switched seats with the passenger next to him going from 2A -> 2F to sit next to my buddy. 1/3 of the way through boarding, a middle aged man with extremely broad shoulders and an enormous bulge around his calf approached the FA and said something. She then approached me and my companion and asked if we had switched seats. We confidently replied that we had so that we could sit together. This gentleman looked angry, but never said a word to us or anyone else. Approximately every 5 minuted he glared at me. Incidently, he did not order anything to drink during the short flight down to Orange County. US Airways did just redo the seat numbering on their HP aircraft F section. Accordingly, this could have been either a frustrated passenger or an upset FAM.
Upon landing, I went to Avis and they gave me a free upgrade from an economy car to a Chevy Malibu with over 30k miles on it
. San Diego was fun; the drive back to LAS was uneventful. I am ready to move past this subject. If the government wants to waste their time and money flying FAMs with me this month - then so be it. They will be wasting a lot of time as I travel LAS-MSP-ATL-SJO-ATL-MEM-LAS-PHX-SLC-EWR-CLE-SEA-ATL-SYR-ATL-PHX-LAS-LAX-BOS-IAD-PHL-SJU-PHL-PIT-SFO-LAS over these next few weekends. I also have booked an award ticket OTP-TLV-OTP on LY (El-Al) for this summer. If anything strange happens, I will post an update. I hope I do not have to post anything.
Thanks to everyone who voiced their support and safe travels to all.