No Surprise.....

monster · 01-31-2015, 07:14 PM

My flight to Chicago was cancelled. Now going home via Atlanta, but word is they expect Detroit to close right around about the time my new flight is due to land....... am not remotely surprised, but am ready to go home and would rather not deal with the palaver of getting a hotel room in Atlanta and being a day late home, arriving on a work/school day :/

xoxoxoBruce · 01-31-2015, 07:29 PM

That sucks big time, I 'm sure you're anxious to get home after your first week in hell. Feel free to drop Tony's name if it'll help.

monster · 01-31-2015, 07:33 PM

it wasn't hell. It was pretty cool because I learned that it's the perfect job for me and I will do it well. But I'm tired, I miss my family and I don't want them to be driving in shitty conditions to come and get me, or having to drive themselves to school in shitty conditions.

monster · 01-31-2015, 07:36 PM

I did mention Tony, and they asked if he was interested in buying a soiled 737. And they said they weren't sorry about his finger.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-31-2015, 07:43 PM

Great, that's outstanding news... the job, not the traveling.
Sounds like you feel the job is comfortable enough you'll be able to parry the inevitable mosquitos that surround every job. You have the advantage because they'd play hell trying to find a replacement with your qualifications.

monster · 01-31-2015, 08:26 PM

The hotel TV's default channel is The Weather Channel. Every time I turn it on, the forecast for Detroit is worse

orthodoc · 01-31-2015, 09:12 PM

Good news/bad news. Great job/stuck in Detroit. Or is it Atlanta? Does the bar have free drinks for stranded travelers?

But seriously, glad to hear the job will be a good fit.

monster · 01-31-2015, 09:45 PM

not even stuck anywhere yet. Still in St Louis watching weather forecast worsen by the minute. Detroit is home. airport-wise

Griff · 02-01-2015, 08:10 AM

Good luck getting home! Congrats on the job.

monster · 02-01-2015, 07:55 PM

I am stuck in St Louis.

The second cancellation came as I pulled up to the pump to fill the rental car before returning it. Sat at the pump and rescheduled, then moved to parking spot to extend hire car...... didn't notice I missed the call to cancel the flight I'd just been booked on. So went and sat it out at a friends, beest checked on line and noticed the cancellation. tried for hours to call Southwest to reschedule, couldn't get through, so decided to drive to airport, dump car anyway, get reschedule and then get hotel on airport. So here I am, in the Hilton, not remotely enjoying it, and not going home tonight. No school for the kids tomorrow, though, so at least they don't have to manage another day with insufficient drivers

xoxoxoBruce · 02-01-2015, 08:11 PM

Bummer, it sucks when things out of your control go to hell.

01-31-2015, 07:14 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	No Surprise..... My flight to Chicago was cancelled. Now going home via Atlanta, but word is they expect Detroit to close right around about the time my new flight is due to land....... am not remotely surprised, but am ready to go home and would rather not deal with the palaver of getting a hotel room in Atlanta and being a day late home, arriving on a work/school day :/ __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-31-2015, 07:29 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That sucks big time, I 'm sure you're anxious to get home after your first week in hell. Feel free to drop Tony's name if it'll help. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-31-2015, 07:33 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	it wasn't hell. It was pretty cool because I learned that it's the perfect job for me and I will do it well. But I'm tired, I miss my family and I don't want them to be driving in shitty conditions to come and get me, or having to drive themselves to school in shitty conditions. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-31-2015, 07:36 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I did mention Tony, and they asked if he was interested in buying a soiled 737. And they said they weren't sorry about his finger. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-31-2015, 07:43 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Great, that's outstanding news... the job, not the traveling. Sounds like you feel the job is comfortable enough you'll be able to parry the inevitable mosquitos that surround every job. You have the advantage because they'd play hell trying to find a replacement with your qualifications. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-31-2015, 08:26 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The hotel TV's default channel is The Weather Channel. Every time I turn it on, the forecast for Detroit is worse __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-31-2015, 09:12 PM	#7
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Good news/bad news. Great job/stuck in Detroit. Or is it Atlanta? Does the bar have free drinks for stranded travelers? But seriously, glad to hear the job will be a good fit. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

01-31-2015, 09:45 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	not even stuck anywhere yet. Still in St Louis watching weather forecast worsen by the minute. Detroit is home. airport-wise __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-01-2015, 08:10 AM	#9
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Good luck getting home! Congrats on the job. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-01-2015, 07:55 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I am stuck in St Louis. The second cancellation came as I pulled up to the pump to fill the rental car before returning it. Sat at the pump and rescheduled, then moved to parking spot to extend hire car...... didn't notice I missed the call to cancel the flight I'd just been booked on. So went and sat it out at a friends, beest checked on line and noticed the cancellation. tried for hours to call Southwest to reschedule, couldn't get through, so decided to drive to airport, dump car anyway, get reschedule and then get hotel on airport. So here I am, in the Hilton, not remotely enjoying it, and not going home tonight. No school for the kids tomorrow, though, so at least they don't have to manage another day with insufficient drivers __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-01-2015, 08:11 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Bummer, it sucks when things out of your control go to hell. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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