K
Kittyscave
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Thank you for your patience my most sweet wonderful sexy friends!
As if the airline trouble last week wasn't enough, yesterday was one for the books. I was supposed to arrive in DC at about 4:45. While we did technically land in DC at the appropriate time, we landed in Dulles rather than National. It seems National developed a bit of a pothole problem on the runway. Not one to be a backseat driver, I bit my tongue rather than to suggest a good pilot probably could have steered around the damn thing.
So, we sat on the plane for 2 hours waiting for the pothole to be repaired or a gate to open for us. In the mean time we were assured we were 1st in line for fuel. Well, we wound up being second, but as if to make amends, they pumped an extra 4000 lbs of fuel into our plane. Physics isn't my strong suit, but even I know that taking off and landing for a 15 minute flight (since Dulles is 23 miles from National) with that much extra fuel would be problematic.
Thankfully, a gate opened and we were able to deplane. A logical move might have been to remove all the luggage before attempting to siphon off a little under 4000 lbs of fuel. But, we were dealing with United. And, since there is a prohibition against removing luggage while fueling/defueling a plane, we had to wait another 2.5 hours before the plane was ready for us to reboard and take off for the 15 minute flight. I could have completed the luggage delivery paperwork, left, and taken a taxi downtown. But, I needed my suitcase and I knew full well the likelihood of a next day delivery was slim.
I eventually made it to the hotel room at 11:00 pm. United was kind enough to send an email with an offer for compensation. However, since this is United we're talking about the link was problematic and said I had already received compensation. But... I could elect to speak with someone from Customer Service, if I would like.
Anyway... it's a new day today. I missed dinner with my son yesterday but we were able to get together after my meeting today. So, all is good in my world.
You people have been so very kind these past few weeks and I feel as though I have been so very remiss. Thank you for all the kind comments. I'm very tired from so little sleep last night, but I did take a few morning pics (including a bone for toeskr). While I am pleased you all liked the last story, I wrote it on my phone at one of the other airports I visited last week. Hence, I had little ability to edit and it really bothers me that I used "indulgent" twice toward the end.
Anyway, thanks for hanging in there with me. I sincerely hope all has been well for you all these past couple weeks. I'm home again (in theory) on Wednesday and don't have to travel again until mid-July.
Have a fantastic week sexy friends. Think about me stuck in the conference room with 20 other academics all day again tomorrow.Maybe some of your positive vibes will travel my way and enter through my aura leaving me all warm and tingly.
K
damn I'm so close to National, I could have kept you company while you were waiting
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But, I was at Dulles anyway.![]()



Oh so good!