Well maybe its for the better, because a friend missed many a flights in her days too, and she always seemed to get the shaft from the airlines. She would be sent scurrying around JFK on a bus in the rain with a baby and stroller, etc. I don't ever recall her getting any kind of special favor from the airlines, and she just had the worst lucfk. Part of it, and I'm not sure if this is all of it, at least for a time she was in to punk rock, and I'm sure that look didn't help her case.

One time I think it was TWA she bought a ticket for let's say $90 JFK to BOS roundtrip. But instead, the agent issued it at a different fare a $90 one way fare. She was rushing at JFK. So she gets to BOS, and they tell her she just had only a oneway ticket.

They tell her to go back to JFK and find the agent that issued the ticket, and she says she doesn't remember the agent, like he was just another brick in the wall at JFK and there was nothing particular about him. I thought that slant on the song and the story was funny. And TWA never didn anything to help, and I think she ended up taking bus. At the time I think she was also trying to take a pitch fork on the plane (some punk rock thing) and again that may have been to detriment .