bonne journee my muthafuckin ass....
May. 16th, 2008 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbc12h20 MDT
I’m sitting alone where the rain comes. And suddenly I start wondering where it will go. Well…not really.
I’m sitting o’ here in O’Denver (DIA) trying to get to o’there in O’Hare (ORD) and then O’Wilkes Barre/Scranton PA. (OK that pun’s old). In United’s mediocre Red Carpet Club. The furnishings are fine, it’s the services. Like no free wifi (except DIA’s, which clearly is over-subscribed. Oh and you pay for most bevies. There are, however, Lays potato chips.
After an all-too-brief night of snugglingquerrelle , we awoke around 05h30 and were out the door at 06h05. I get a bit panicked when I cut it close for the airport, even when only carrying on. And this trip it was worse: my Merkun passport expired so I had to enter Les États Unis on my Canuck one. And dude sometimes that makes those power-tragic lame-arses Customs Agents a bit pissy.
Not today though. I was, like “This trip is totally last minute and OMG my US passport was expired. But I totally have my Canadian one. Is that, like, OK? I’m sooo not trying to be sneaky.”
I got through security wicked fast too, completely forgetting to take out my baggies of wee liquids. Not a sausage. I plopped down au Salon Feuille d’Erable (a proper airline lounge, with free wifi and Ethernet) for a bit then waddled onboard. A nice service with omelettes, though there were no foot rests in F-class and my leprechaun legs were dangling off the seat. Can you say back ache Batman?
I arrived here at DIA early, but got off the plane late because of tarmac traffic. Only to find my flight to Chicago is delayed 3 hours. That would still leave 30 minutes to make my connection to PA, but it’s O’Hare. I’m not stooped.
United has this very nifty service though. March up to a counter and pick up the courtesy phone. Agent comes on, you explain your story, they sort it, and the boarding pass prints right in front of you. So I got protected on a flight only an hour later. Since I had 3.5 to kill in ORD, n’importe.
But this lounge sucks (hard). I think I’ll have a wander through the terminal. I’ve never lost my ability to get a chubby at a kewl airport. And DIA is kewl. The crowd’s still pretty white-bread though.
16h39 CDT
Well, the flight got out of DIA fine…only to be bounced back by O’Hare due to “strong” winds of 20mph closing 1 runway. Luckily our clever pilot loaded extra fuel; otherwise I think I’d be in Des Moines or somewhere similar. We landed about 30 minutes late, leaving 2 hours to kill here.
I broke down and bought a.) McDo; and b.) Boingo Wi-fi for 24 hours. I might still be here….thank Gawd for carryon.
I’m sitting alone where the rain comes. And suddenly I start wondering where it will go. Well…not really.
I’m sitting o’ here in O’Denver (DIA) trying to get to o’there in O’Hare (ORD) and then O’Wilkes Barre/Scranton PA. (OK that pun’s old). In United’s mediocre Red Carpet Club. The furnishings are fine, it’s the services. Like no free wifi (except DIA’s, which clearly is over-subscribed. Oh and you pay for most bevies. There are, however, Lays potato chips.
After an all-too-brief night of snuggling
querrelle , we awoke around 05h30 and were out the door at 06h05. I get a bit panicked when I cut it close for the airport, even when only carrying on. And this trip it was worse: my Merkun passport expired so I had to enter Les États Unis on my Canuck one. And dude sometimes that makes those Not today though. I was, like “This trip is totally last minute and OMG my US passport was expired. But I totally have my Canadian one. Is that, like, OK? I’m sooo not trying to be sneaky.”
“As long as you got a passport.” ScanTypeStampShoveBackGrunt. Works for me.
I got through security wicked fast too, completely forgetting to take out my baggies of wee liquids. Not a sausage. I plopped down au Salon Feuille d’Erable (a proper airline lounge, with free wifi and Ethernet) for a bit then waddled onboard. A nice service with omelettes, though there were no foot rests in F-class and my leprechaun legs were dangling off the seat. Can you say back ache Batman?
I arrived here at DIA early, but got off the plane late because of tarmac traffic. Only to find my flight to Chicago is delayed 3 hours. That would still leave 30 minutes to make my connection to PA, but it’s O’Hare. I’m not stooped.
United has this very nifty service though. March up to a counter and pick up the courtesy phone. Agent comes on, you explain your story, they sort it, and the boarding pass prints right in front of you. So I got protected on a flight only an hour later. Since I had 3.5 to kill in ORD, n’importe.
But this lounge sucks (hard). I think I’ll have a wander through the terminal. I’ve never lost my ability to get a chubby at a kewl airport. And DIA is kewl. The crowd’s still pretty white-bread though.
16h39 CDT
Well, the flight got out of DIA fine…only to be bounced back by O’Hare due to “strong” winds of 20mph closing 1 runway. Luckily our clever pilot loaded extra fuel; otherwise I think I’d be in Des Moines or somewhere similar. We landed about 30 minutes late, leaving 2 hours to kill here.
I broke down and bought a.) McDo; and b.) Boingo Wi-fi for 24 hours. I might still be here….thank Gawd for carryon.
