It ain't so bad
© Diane Goldberg under the original topic name
Last week our heroine flew for the first time since 9/11 --- like many of her Gentle Readers she'd been regaled via internet (and that other source of immensely credible authority - people one meets in the line at the grocery store) with tales of travel woe and interminable airport waits . . .
Ms Budget Travel has heard, as have we all, about women waiting to board flights these days who met a man, conceived a child, and gave birth in the time it took to reach the ticket counter . . . she'd heard of Newark to Pittsburgh flights routed through San Diego and all manner of strange and curious things . . .
Ms Budget Travel is confused because she wonders how many of these stories of lengthy waits take into account the waits of journeys past. It seems to her that before the world went mad, luggage was lost, flights were rescheduled, and events occurred. She wonders if maybe we are attributing things to the current crisis that are really only business as usual.
Stuff Happens
and Ms Budget Travel extends her fervent apologies to all the haters of euphemism but this tends to be a kids included part of the Internet . . .
Meanwhile, to pick up the threads of our heroine's journey . . .
Ms Budget Travel arrived at her local airport the newly requisite two hours prior to flight time and in a matter of minutes, was all checked in and issued a boarding pass. Nothing seemed to have changed other than the mysterious presence of lots of empty space.
She passed through security, went to the bar, and stared at what appears to be the "Anthrax Channel" for over an hour prior to boarding her flight.
She did notice that despite the new rules the same odd beings were on this flight as those who'd accompanied her prior travels. The flight contained at least one woman committing olfactory terrorism with dueling hairspray and perfume. A Very Important Man had brought enough carry on luggage to contain a three-season wardrobe for Ms Budget Travel. Aforementioned Very Important Man predictably blocked the aisle when it came time to deplane causing everyone to stand cramped and crazy while he jerked a thousand pounds of stuff out of the overhead bin.
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