You did mention that the trip back from the desert was a bit of an adventure. You met a guy at the airport selling shower curtain rings?
Really, that's about all we didn't meet up with. We made it out of Phoenix without issue, but once we got north to Detroit, things went south.
The following happened, in no particular order:
- Flight from Detroit to NY got cancelled
- Every restaurant and shop in the airport closed, leaving a very hungry Jeremy
- The "Customer Service" for the airline (Which, for purely hypothetical Blag purposes, let's call "Greek Difference Airlines") sucked...having 6 people behind a desk to watch people scan their own tickets to be rebooked, only to point them to a bank of phones to call "Customer Service" if they didn't like what they got.
- Screaming match with one customer, after she was (allegedly) told to walk to the hotel at which she had been booked.
- We were all rebooked on the exact same flight that just got cancelled. Way to go "Greek Difference"
- Upon talking on the phone with "Customer Service" we were given the options of one flight 2 days later, a flight the following morning, with a nice long layover in Atlanta (That's right...Detroit to New York by way of Georgia), and (Our ultimate choice) a flight the following morning to the wrong city.
- Spending the night in a deathtrap hotel with short-circuiting alarm clocks, physicist-approved zero-friction shower floors, and a jerk who turned the temperature in my room down to a balmy 61 degrees.
- Late shuttle back to the airport, including Chihuahuas.
- Vindictively spending every last frickin' cent of $18 worth of food vouchers at the airport.
- Getting lost trying to leave the airport in the van we had to rent since we were in the wrong city.
- A black cat crossing the road in front of said rental van.
- A certain middle hitter who may or may not have been recently made famous for "The Monkey Dance" locking the keys inside the rental van.
As such, "Greek Difference Airlines" earns a big thumbs down from me and the rest of my travelling party. In fact, they're officially 3rd on my list of companies On Notice (Which I totally invented long before Colbert, but I didn't have a Blag or a TV show at the time to prove it.) So yes...it goes UPS, "High's Home Improvement Warehouse," and "Greek Difference Airlines."
Have a good weekend, everybody!
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Things you missed after we dropped you off:
After the nice man from AAA unlocked the car for us, I left the place where our coach and setter cohabitate (what can I say, it's a strange team) feeling pretty good. Why wouldn't I? I was 2 miles from home and the trip was finally going to be over. Then I saw a poor groundhog getting run over by the car in front of me.
Also, while gassing up the rental van I pulled the nozzle from the nozzle rest and it was full of gasoline which spewed all over the van. Every single scenario from Mythbusters ran through my head at that very moment just to make sure I did not set the van on fire by accident. Apparently, there are people who like paying for gas but not actually putting it in their cars.
Oh well, at least the Taco Bell dinner I enjoyed with my wife after the van return was nice. And yes, we picked out the place in your honor.
Z.
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