greetings from HELL.

no, not SLC -- dallas, tx. and why am i in dallas, you ask? well we stupidly missed out 8am flight this morning (and please do note that it is presently 5:30pm); totally our bad, but the result of a confluence of small, bad things we should've been astute enough to anticipate. whatever. the point is: because we missed our flight at 8am, that screwed us on the connection in chicago to SLC, and we were left with one option: fly to dallas and hope against hope we could get on a connection there to SLC.

obviously this plan did not pan out very well.

american airlines (who i now LOATHE WITH ALL MY BEING) apparently considers passengers who miss flights less-than-human (or at least less-than-worthy of treatment as paying customers), and rather than just give us a stupid ticket on a stupid flight from dallas to SLC (an AA flight around 2pm that had actual open seats available, mind you), they decided instead to adopt a policy whereby if you miss ONE of their flights, you are thereafter relegated to the aggravation-filled purgatory of Stand By. and so we have been standing by. and standing by. finally we decided to spend another $600 [insert shrieks of terrror] for a different flight on Delta, who WOULD give us actual tickets for our money! what a concept! BITTER? OH, A TAD.

we were originally to get into SLC around noon today. now it looks like we'll be getting picked up by beth around, oh, 8pm.

it has to get better from here.

Comments

[Busy Mom]

I hope things are better by now and that you guys have a blast!

[joy]

trace, you are not the only one on a detour. check this out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm

poor, poor whale.

[styro]

dude, that is some bullshit. glad you're finally getting there, but what a total clusterfuck.

[debbie]

what the fuck?? what a nightmare. you guys must be reeling from the 600 bucks! yikes. yeah, it definitely *has* to get better from here. maybe you'll get to see jolie and pitt! heh. have fun!