jawnbc | Oct. 2nd, 2004

Things for which to be grateful: Gold card lounge, free wireless internet, a hot shower, love of a great man, family, and many good friends.

Things for which to be pissy: see below. I’m supposed to be arriving at FRA right about now, en route to London.

01 Oct
1345: depart my house for airport
1415: check in at Thai Airways for my flights to Bangkok, then Frankfurt, then London ETD 1630
1420: arrive in Gold lounge, get some work done, imbibe copious amounts of pop and tea
1610: announce flight is late, but will still leave in time for our connections in BKK
1700: board flight
1800-1900: lots of noises, lights flicker on and off, a minimum of announcements explaining anything
1930: they announce they’ll serve dinner on the ground (which, if you’ve traveled much, means they’re gonna cancel the flight)
1935: I got gate agents, explain “I’m gettting married”, they advise there’s not enough seats on the later flight for the business class passengers. I’m in economy. I explain I”m Gold, and look (genuinely) heartbroken. They tell me (pssssst) flight will be cancelled; when it’s announced come right up front
2030: announce flight is cancelled. My bags are packed, I’m ready to go
2040: I’m picked first to be put on the later flight
2115: finally boarded on red-eye, scheduled to leave at 2130 and arrive 0630 next day
2215: flight finally leaves late
2310: stop in Melbourne. Have to deplane to get “a proper seat” Take a sleeping pill
2355: given a proper seat, with a bassinette; 2 seats down is a woman with an infant: take 2nd sleeping pill. I’m sympathetic but ain’t giving up an aisle seat for a middle bulkheard (arms don’t move)
2400: they swap seats for us. I strap in, we take off. Zzzzzzzz

02 Oct
0655: arrive in Melbourne; I slept nearly 8 hours. I feel good!
0720: charge to the transfer desk. Who try to put me on the Lufthansa flight at midnight.
0721: MRS EGAN quietly channeled at poor women on desk. She puts me on a noon flight non-stop to London
0740: arrive Business class lounge (gold card status; I’m still in economy on the flight), take a nice long shower

I will arrive in London on Thai Airways 916, which leaves here at 1225 and arrives in London Heathrow at 1830. I shall eat, shag my man, then go out and dance my face off all night.

My bags, of course, will arrive much later.