How Yesterday Went

I was scheduled to return home yesterday to North Carolina from Ontario, California, but the flight was canceled due to mechanical problems. I was at the airport for over 12 hours, and will hopefully be back home today. They couldn't reschedule or book us another flight because that airport was already overbooked anyway. I have to fly out of another airport today because Ontario is overbooked today, too.

I'm being paid for travel time, but will be flying back out to Sacramento on Monday so I only get three days off. Delta Airlines did give me a $100 voucher for future flight anywhere in the country within a year, meal vouchers, hotel voucher(very nice hotel), and transportation to another airport this morning.

One positive is I did spend my time talking to new friends at the airport. And oh yeah, you can expect another movie to be made(and plot to be written this weekend) about the experiences of what happened to us all yesterday(besides, it is close to Hollywood anyway). It will be called "Flight 1714".

One of the new friends I talked to was named Tammy(no, not the red-hot DJ Tammy, sorry), who was a real nice lady. She lives in California, and is being deployed from the Navy Reserve to Gulfport, Mississippi. Believe it or not, she actually did make suggestions for the script for this movie. I told her I blogged sometimes, and write blogger movies which was even funnier when she added to it.

The other two guys I talked with were from West Virginia, and missed being able to work here because of the cancellation. Luckily for them, they caught a red-eye flight out last night. They also had some key points to add to the movie. At least we were able to joke about this a little bit.

The whole point to this while it is frustrating because these kind of things happen at airlines all the time is that you can always find some good out of anything.

Well, I won't be getting back to North Carolina until later on tonight, so I won't be online again until Friday. Thanks to you all for your continued visits as well as links, too. I hope to update the badge and link list as well as post a little more before I leave for Sacramento on Monday.

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